1e17 s

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10¹⁷ seconds and 10¹⁸ seconds (3,200 million years and 32,000 million years)

• shorter times
• 3,500 million years -- age of oldest life (bacteria)
• 3,800 million years ago -- Hadean era ends, Archaean begins
• 4,500 million years ago -- Precambrian eon, Hadean era begins
• 4,500 million years -- age of the Earth
• 13,000 million years -- age of the Universe