To find out how many seconds there are in a year, you either need to add and multiply a lot, or simply multiply a lot. In the first case, you need to look at each season and calculate how many time meters there are, and then add all the indicators obtained into an integer (which we are actually looking for), in the second, apply the knowledge gained back in kindergarten and multiply to the correct numbers. To more fully reveal the topic, we will choose the first point, i.e., consider how many days, minutes and seconds are in a year, not just in general, but in each season separately (winter, spring, summer and autumn). This path is longer and more boring, so those who wish can immediately scroll through the article to the end, which outlines an easier way to find out the information of interest.
In addition to the number of seconds, it would be useful to mention how many minutes are in a year, since this is no less important - just like days. Anyway, information about what time it is in a year is useful and can be useful to everyone. Yes, it can be difficult to remember complex six- and eight-digit numbers, but it is quite possible to remember the number of months, days, hours and days in each other.
So, for starters, some background information:
- There are 12 months in one year. This is a fact whichremains completely unchanged each time, unlike the next item.
- There are 365 days in one year. The exception is a leap year, when there are a little more days: 366. True, it happens relatively rarely: once every four years. However, this fact spoils the picture a bit, because you have to calculate the seconds separately in a normal year and separately in a leap year.
- There are 24 hours in one day. Always. Regardless of the year and date, a day always contains no more, no less than 24 hours. Yes, sometimes it seems to people that there is not enough time, but that is a completely different story, and it has purely psychological reasons.
- There are 60 minutes in one hour. Just like days or months, hours do not depend on whether the year is a leap year or not.
- There are 60 seconds in one minute.
That's all, in fact, thanks to this information, you can already find out how many seconds are in a year. But let's proceed to the "debriefing".
Spring
March. The first month of spring contains:
- Number of days: 31.
- Number of hours: 744.
- Number of minutes: 44 640.
- Seconds: 2 678 400.
April
- Number of days: 30.
- Number of hours: 720.
- Number of minutes: 43 200.
- Seconds: 2,592,000.
May
- Number of days: 31.
- Number of hours: 744.
- Number of minutes: 44640.
- Seconds: 2 678 400.
Increment: 2,678,400 + 2,592,000 + 2,678,400.
Total inseconds: 7 948 800.
Summer
June. Summer is coming, the first month of which contains:
- Number of days: 30.
- Number of hours: 720.
- Number of minutes: 43 200.
- Seconds: 2,592,000.
July
- Number of days: 31.
- Number of hours: 744.
- Number of minutes: 44 640.
- Seconds: 2 678 400.
August
- Number of days: 31.
- Number of hours: 744.
- Number of minutes: 44 640.
- Seconds: 2 678 400.
- Increment: 2,592,000 + 2,678,400 + 2,678,400.
- Total in seconds: 7 948 800.
Autumn
September. Carries this month in itself:
- Number of days: 30.
- Number of hours: 720.
- Number of minutes: 43 200.
- Seconds: 2,592,000.
October
- Number of days: 31.
- Number of hours: 744.
- Number of minutes: 44 640.
- Seconds: 2 678 400.
November
- Number of days: 30.
- Number of hours: 720.
- Number of minutes: 43 200.
- Seconds: 2,592,000.
Increment: 2,592,000 + 2,678,400 + 2,592,000.
Total in seconds: 7 862 400.
Winter. Leap years and common years
Leap year is an event that occurs every four years at the end of winter. 11 months pass the same way as always, except for February. He is deprived of days (unlike his "comrades", he does not have 30 or 31 days, but only 28), but with the help ofleap year, he may feel a little closer to his "relatives", because it is during this period of days that February 29. This is not much higher than the usual number, moreover, it still falls short of other months, but more or less in this way the last winter month is still approaching the cherished number 30. True, it will never be able to grow up to it.
Well, when we figured out the leap years, you can start the usual calculation.
December. Winter is coming and the last month before next year. It carries:
- Number of days: 31.
- Number of hours: 744.
- Number of minutes: 44 640.
- Seconds: 2 678 400.
January
- Number of days: 31.
- Number of hours: 744.
- Number of minutes: 44 640.
- Seconds: 2 678 400.
Common February:
- Number of days: 28.
- Hours: 672.
- Minutes: 40 320.
- Seconds: 2 419 200.
Increment: 2 678 400 + 2 678 400 + 2 419 200.
Total in seconds: 7 776 000.
Leap February:
- Number of days: 29.
- Hours: 696.
- Minutes: 41 760.
- Seconds: 2 505 600.
Increment: 2 678 400 + 2 678 400 + 2 505 600.
Total in seconds: 7 862 400.
Answering the question
So we counted all the weeks, days, hours, minutes. Now you can give a concrete answer to the question of how many seconds are in a year.
In commonyear:
- 12 months.
- 52 full weeks.
- 365 days.
- 8760 hours.
- 525 600 minutes.
- 31,536,000 seconds.
In a leap year:
- 12 months.
- 52 full weeks.
- 366 days.
- 8784 hours.
- 527,040 minutes.
- 31 622 400 seconds.
That's it. How do we find out how many seconds there are in a year? In fact, everything is very simple. Officially, we counted the number of spring, summer, autumn and winter seconds, after which we added them up. However, there is the very easy and simple way that was mentioned at the beginning of the article: 365 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds. In the case of a leap year, we change 365 to 366 and do the same, that is, we multiply the day by hours, minutes and seconds. The end result will be the same results as above. If you have a calculator, this method allows you not to remember large numbers, but simply and quickly count the seconds when this or that situation requires it. However, those with a good memory can memorize all the necessary numbers.
