To help compare
orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10
4 seconds and 10
5 seconds (2.77 hours and 27 hours).
- shorter times
- 8 hours -- one [work day]? in most Western countries. Also most people's daily need for sleep (except perhaps Wikipedians, who never sleep).
- 10 hours -- one [work day]? in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
- 23 hours 56 minutes -- time for Earth's rotation around its axis
- 24 hours -- one day
- longer times