Seconds in a Year

How many seconds are there in a year?

Hint: You don’t need a calculator

24. If you said 12 for January 2nd, February 2nd, etc that’s close, but you forgot about January 22nd, February 22nd and so on. If you are a math whiz and didn’t need a calculator to perform 60 x 60 x 24 x 365, then 31,536,000 works too. If you used 365.25 to account for leap year, then you are a human calculator, but even that’s not entirely accurate due to the leap second. And even accounting for that, it’s only an approximation that there are 365.2422 days in a year.

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77 Comments on "Seconds in a Year"


hello says
March 17, 2014 @ 06:15

Idk


Scott says
November 3, 2014 @ 03:03

12 seconds in a year
jan 2nd
feb 2nd
mar 2nd and so on


Hoova says
December 19, 2014 @ 21:28

How about the second of every month as well as the 22nd of every month adding up to 24 seconds


Jusy says
January 11, 2015 @ 17:15

60 151 992


Dan says
January 12, 2015 @ 16:32

Could you show your work? I’m not sure where you got that number. If you did the calculation, it would be:

60 (seconds in a minute) x 60 (minutes in an hour) x 24 (hours in a day) x 365 (days in a year) = 31556900, but that doesn’t take into account leap year, or the leap second that’s added once in a while. 365.242 would be closer to the number of days in a year, but I don’t think it’s precise.

But all that aside, this isn’t the answer. Think less of calculations.


bernadette says
February 9, 2015 @ 21:40

Too many


Warren says
February 18, 2015 @ 10:29

How many seconds are there in a year?
31,556,926 seconds or 186000 miles x 31,556,926 seconds = one light-year.


Rayhan says
March 17, 2015 @ 18:18

loooooooooolll!!!!!!!!!


JAIHARI says
March 28, 2015 @ 08:55

i don’t think its a correct answer


Dan says
March 28, 2015 @ 11:06

What do you think is the correct answer?


Kevin says
April 24, 2015 @ 12:51

Warren a light year isn’t a measurement of time, it’s a measurement of distance, because of the finite speed light travels at, a light year is the distance that light travels in a year not the time it takes to travel


Jay says
May 9, 2015 @ 23:30

Umm January 2 January 22 February 2 February 22 March 2 March 22 April 2 April 22 May 2 may22 June 2 June 22 July 2 July 22 August 2 August 22 September 2 September 22 October 2 October 22 November 2 November 22 December 2 December 22


Darlington Obinna says
May 11, 2015 @ 07:43

1yr = 365days, 1day = 24hrs, 1hr = 60minutes, 1minute = 60seconds, .’. 60*60 = 3600 = 24*3600 = 86400, 365days = 86400*365 = 31 536000seconds


Allen says
May 11, 2015 @ 11:04

All of these answers are correct. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a standard year, 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year, approximately 31,556,909 seconds in a solar year. There are also 12 2nd’s (as in dates) in a year, if you choose to count a 22nd as a second (pretty weak, but technically accurate) then there are 24. Just because the questioner had a different response in mind does not change the fact that ALL of the above answers are correct.


Mes says
June 20, 2015 @ 04:42

Lol.


Rednax107 says
June 22, 2015 @ 11:04

3.156e+7 Seconds


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