Conversions
There are exactly 86,400 standard seconds (see SI for the current definition of the standard second) in a standard day, but in the French decimal time system there are 100,000 decimal seconds in the day, so the decimal second is shorter than its counterpart.
| Decimal unit | Seconds | Minutes | Hours | h:mm:ss.s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decimal second | 0.864 | 0.0144 | 0.00024 | 0:00:00.9 |
| Decimal minute | 86.4 | 1.44 | 0.024 | 0:01:26.4 |
| Decimal hour | 8,640 | 144 | 2.4 | 2:24:00.0 |
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