We are used to the fact that one kilogram has a thousand grams, and one kilometer has a thousand meters. And everyone understands that 1.5 kilometers is 1500 meters, and 1.3 kilograms is 1300 grams. When it comes to hours and minutes, the usual picture collapses, because 1.2 hours is not 1200 minutes at all, and not 120 minutes, and not 1 hour 20 minutes. And sometimes it is very necessary to convert minutes into hours, or hours into seconds. Very often, for example, such a need arises when solving problems in physics, when it is necessary to express the speed, expressed in kilometers per hour, in meters per second. There is nothing complicated here.

How to convert minutes to hours

How many minutes are there in 1 hour? 60. Actually, proceeding from this, it is already possible to solve the task.

To convert hours to minutes, just multiply the number of hours by 60:

1 hour \u003d 1 * 60 minutes \u003d 60 minutes

3 hours \u003d 3 * 60 minutes \u003d 180 minutes

5.3 hours \u003d 5.3 * 60 minutes \u003d 318 minutes, or \u003d 5 hours + 0.3 hours \u003d 5 hours + 0.3 * 60 minutes \u003d 5 hours 18 minutes

2.14 hours \u003d 2.14 * 60 minutes \u003d 128.4 minutes

The last example shows that this operation works not only for integer values, but also for fractional values.

If to convert hours into minutes it was necessary to multiply by 60, then to convert minutes into hours, the number of minutes must be divided by 60:

120 minutes \u003d 120/60 \u003d 2 hours

45 minutes \u003d 45/60 \u003d 0.75 hours

204 minutes \u003d 204/60 \u003d 3.4 hours, or \u003d 3 hours 24 minutes

24.6 minutes \u003d 24.6 / 60 \u003d 0.41 hours

If you need to convert a formula in which other units of measurement are present, simply replace one value with another, observing the above rules. The unit of measurement “hour” should be changed to “60 minutes”, and “minute” should be changed to “1/60 hour”.

If, when converting hours into minutes, you get a fraction, you can continue the translation and find out how many seconds are the fractional part of a minute.

How to convert minutes to seconds

Since there are sixty seconds in one minute, it is also not difficult to convert one value to another. To convert minutes to seconds, you need to multiply the time expressed in minutes by 60:

1 minute \u003d 1 * 60 seconds \u003d 60 seconds

3 minutes \u003d 3 * 60 seconds \u003d 180 seconds

5.3 minutes \u003d 5.3 * 60 seconds \u003d 318 seconds, or \u003d 5 minutes + 0.3 minutes \u003d 5 minutes + 0.3 * 60 seconds \u003d 5 minutes 18 seconds

This operation applies to both integer and fractional values.

To convert seconds into minutes, you need to divide the number of seconds by 60:

120 seconds \u003d 120/60 \u003d 2 minutes

45 seconds \u003d 45/60 \u003d 0.75 minutes

204 seconds \u003d 204/60 \u003d 3.4 minutes, or \u003d 3 minutes 24 seconds

24.6 seconds \u003d 24.6 / 60 \u003d 0.41 minutes

When converting various formulas, the unit of measurement "minutes" must be replaced by "60 seconds", and "second" by "1/60 minutes".

Now, knowing how to convert seconds into minutes, and minutes into hours, you can easily and simply

convert seconds to hours

Since there are 60 seconds in 1 minute, and 60 minutes in one hour, it turns out that 60 * 60 \u003d 3600 seconds in one hour. This means that to convert seconds to hours, you need to divide them by 3600:

8640 seconds \u003d 8640/3600 \u003d 2.4 hours

Conversely, to convert hours to seconds, multiply by 3600:

1.2 hours \u003d 1.2 * 3600 seconds \u003d 4320 seconds

You can continue transforming further. There are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, and 365 days in a year (366 in a leap year). Based on the examples above, I think you can easily convert one unit of time to another.

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1 minute [min] \u003d 0.0166666666666667 hour [hour]

Initial value

Converted value

second millisecond microsecond nanosecond picosecond femtosecond attosecond 10 nanoseconds minute hour day week month synodic month year Julian year leap year tropical year sidereal year sidereal day sidereal hour sidereal minute sidereal second fortnight (14 days) seven years five years eightyears centenary time of the year (Gregorian) sidereal month anomalistic month anomalistic year draconic month draconic year

Power in diopters and lens magnification

More about time

General information. Physical properties of time

Time can be viewed in two ways: as a mathematical system designed to help our understanding of the universe and the course of events, or as a measurement, part of the structure of the universe. In classical mechanics, time is independent of other variables and the course of time is constant. Einstein's theory of relativity, on the contrary, asserts that events that are simultaneous in one frame of reference can occur asynchronously in another if it is in motion with respect to the first. This phenomenon is called relativistic time dilation. The above time difference is significant at speeds close to the speed of light, and has been experimentally proven, for example, in the Hafele-Keating experiment. The scientists synchronized five atomic clocks and left one motionless in the laboratory. The rest of the hours flew twice around the Earth in passenger planes. Hafele and Keating found that the "travel clock" lagged behind the stationary clock, as predicted by the theory of relativity. The effect of gravity, as well as an increase in speed, slows down time.

Time measurement

Clocks define the current time in units of less than one day, while calendars are abstract systems that represent longer intervals of time such as days, weeks, months, and years. The smallest unit of time is the second, one of seven SI units. The standard of a second is: "9192631770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the atom of cesium-133."

Mechanical watches

Mechanical clocks typically measure the number of cyclic oscillations of events of a given length, such as the oscillation of a pendulum that oscillates once per second. The sundial tracks the movement of the sun across the sky during the day and displays the time on the dial with a shadow. A water clock, widely used in antiquity and the Middle Ages, measures time by pouring water between several vessels, while an hourglass uses sand and similar materials.

The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco is developing a 10,000-year-old clock called the Clock of the Long Now, which should last and remain accurate for ten thousand years. The project is aimed at creating a simple, understandable and easy-to-use and repair structure. No precious metals will be used in the watch construction. Currently, the design involves human service, including the watch factory. Time is tracked by a dual system consisting of an imprecise but reliable mechanical pendulum and an unreliable (due to weather) but accurate lens that collects sunlight. At the time of this writing (January 2013) a prototype of this watch is under construction.

Atomic clock

At present, atomic clocks are the most accurate instruments for measuring time. They are used to ensure accuracy in broadcasting, in global navigation satellite systems, and in worldwide precision time. In such a watch, the thermal vibrations of atoms are slowed down by irradiating them with laser light of the corresponding frequency to a temperature close to absolute zero. Time is counted by measuring the frequency of the radiation resulting from the transition of electrons between levels, and the frequency of these oscillations depends on the electrostatic forces between the electrons and the nucleus, as well as on the mass of the nucleus. Currently, the most common atomic clocks use cesium, rubidium, or hydrogen atoms. The cesium-based atomic clock is the most accurate in long-term use. Their error is less than one second in a million years. Hydrogen atomic clocks are about ten times more accurate for shorter periods of time, up to a week.

Other timing devices

Other measuring instruments include chronometers, which measure time with an accuracy sufficient for use in navigation. With their help, they determine the geographical position based on the position of the stars and planets. Today, a chronometer is commonly available on ships as a backup navigation device, and maritime professionals know how to use it in navigation. However, global navigation satellite systems are used more often than chronometers and sextants.

UTC

All over the world, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used as a universal time measurement system. It is based on the International Atomic Time (TAI) system, which uses the weighted average of more than 200 atomic clocks located around the world to calculate accurate time. Since 2012, TAI is 35 seconds ahead of UTC, because UTC, unlike TAI, uses average solar days. Since a sunny day is slightly longer than 24 hours, leap seconds are added to UTC to coordinate UTC with a solar day. Sometimes these leap seconds cause various problems, especially in areas where computers are used. To avoid such problems, some institutions, such as the server department at Google, use "leap blur" instead of seconds of coordination - lengthening a series of seconds by milliseconds so that the total of these lengthenings is equal to one second.

UTC is based on atomic clocks, while Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is based on the length of a sunny day. GMT is less accurate because it depends on the Earth's rotation period, which is not constant. GMT was widely used in the past, but UTC is now used instead.

Calendars

Calendars are composed of one or more levels of cycles, such as days, weeks, months, and years. They are divided into lunar, solar, lunar-solar.

Lunar calendars

Lunar calendars are based on the phases of the moon. Each month is one lunar cycle and the year is 12 months or 354.37 days. The lunar year is shorter than the solar year, and as a result, the lunar calendars are synchronized with the solar year only once every 33 lunar years. One of these calendars is Islamic. It is used for religious purposes and as the official calendar in Saudi Arabia.

Solar calendars

Solar calendars are based on the movement of the Sun and the seasons. Their frame of reference is a solar or tropical year, that is, the time it takes for the Sun to complete one cycle of the seasons, for example, from the winter solstice to the winter solstice. A tropical year is 365.242 days. Due to the precession of the Earth's axis, that is, a slow change in the position of the Earth's axis of rotation, a tropical year is about 20 minutes shorter than the time it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun once relative to fixed stars (sidereal year). The tropical year is gradually getting 0.53 seconds shorter every 100 tropical years, so reform will likely be needed in the future to keep solar calendars in sync with the tropical year.

The most famous and widely used solar calendar is the Gregorian. It is based on the Julian calendar, which in turn is based on the old Roman calendar. The Julian calendar assumes a year with 365.25 days. In fact, the tropical year is 11 minutes shorter. As a result of this inaccuracy, by 1582 the Julian calendar was 10 days ahead of the tropical year. The Gregorian calendar was used to correct this discrepancy and gradually replaced other calendars in many countries. In some places, including the Orthodox Church, the Julian calendar is still used. By 2013, the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars is 13 days.

To synchronize the 365-day Gregorian year with the 365.2425-day tropical year, a leap year of 366 days is added to the Gregorian calendar. This is done every four years, except for years, which are divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400. For example, 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 was not.

Lunar-solar calendars

Lunar-solar calendars - a combination of lunar and solar calendars. Usually the month in them is equal to the lunar phase, and the months alternate between 29 and 30 days, since the approximate average length of the lunar month is 29.53 days. To keep the lunisolar calendar in sync with the tropical year, a thirteenth month is added to the lunar year every few years. For example, in the Hebrew calendar, the thirteenth month is added seven times over nineteen years — this is called the 19-year cycle, or the Metonic cycle. The Chinese and Hindu calendars are also examples of lunisolar calendars.

Other calendars

Other types of calendars are based on astronomical events, such as the movement of Venus, or historical events, such as the change of rulers. For example, the Japanese chronology (年号 nengo, literally, the name of an era) is used in addition to the Gregorian calendar. The name of the year corresponds to the name of the period, which is also called the motto of the emperor, and the year of the reign of the emperor of this period. Upon accession to the throne, the new emperor confirms his motto, and the countdown of a new period begins. The emperor's motto later becomes his posthumous name. According to this scheme, 2013 is called Heisei 25, that is, the 25th year of the reign of Emperor Akihito of the Heisei period.

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1 minute [min] \u003d 0.0166666666666667 hour [hour]

Initial value

Converted value

second millisecond microsecond nanosecond picosecond femtosecond attosecond 10 nanoseconds minute hour day week month synodic month year Julian year leap year tropical year sidereal year sidereal day sidereal hour sidereal minute sidereal second fortnight (14 days) seven years five years eightyears centenary time of the year (Gregorian) sidereal month anomalistic month anomalistic year draconic month draconic year

Metric and SI

More about time

General information. Physical properties of time

Time can be viewed in two ways: as a mathematical system designed to help our understanding of the universe and the course of events, or as a measurement, part of the structure of the universe. In classical mechanics, time is independent of other variables and the course of time is constant. Einstein's theory of relativity, on the contrary, asserts that events that are simultaneous in one frame of reference can occur asynchronously in another if it is in motion with respect to the first. This phenomenon is called relativistic time dilation. The above time difference is significant at speeds close to the speed of light, and has been experimentally proven, for example, in the Hafele-Keating experiment. The scientists synchronized five atomic clocks and left one motionless in the laboratory. The rest of the hours flew twice around the Earth in passenger planes. Hafele and Keating found that the "travel clock" lagged behind the stationary clock, as predicted by the theory of relativity. The effect of gravity, as well as an increase in speed, slows down time.

Time measurement

Clocks define the current time in units of less than one day, while calendars are abstract systems that represent longer intervals of time such as days, weeks, months, and years. The smallest unit of time is the second, one of seven SI units. The standard of a second is: "9192631770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the atom of cesium-133."

Mechanical watches

Mechanical clocks typically measure the number of cyclic oscillations of events of a given length, such as the oscillation of a pendulum that oscillates once per second. The sundial tracks the movement of the sun across the sky during the day and displays the time on the dial with a shadow. A water clock, widely used in antiquity and the Middle Ages, measures time by pouring water between several vessels, while an hourglass uses sand and similar materials.

The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco is developing a 10,000-year-old clock called the Clock of the Long Now, which should last and remain accurate for ten thousand years. The project is aimed at creating a simple, understandable and easy-to-use and repair structure. No precious metals will be used in the watch construction. Currently, the design involves human service, including the watch factory. Time is tracked by a dual system consisting of an imprecise but reliable mechanical pendulum and an unreliable (due to weather) but accurate lens that collects sunlight. At the time of this writing (January 2013) a prototype of this watch is under construction.

Atomic clock

At present, atomic clocks are the most accurate instruments for measuring time. They are used to ensure accuracy in broadcasting, in global navigation satellite systems, and in worldwide precision time. In such a watch, the thermal vibrations of atoms are slowed down by irradiating them with laser light of the corresponding frequency to a temperature close to absolute zero. Time is counted by measuring the frequency of the radiation resulting from the transition of electrons between levels, and the frequency of these oscillations depends on the electrostatic forces between the electrons and the nucleus, as well as on the mass of the nucleus. Currently, the most common atomic clocks use cesium, rubidium, or hydrogen atoms. The cesium-based atomic clock is the most accurate in long-term use. Their error is less than one second in a million years. Hydrogen atomic clocks are about ten times more accurate for shorter periods of time, up to a week.

Other timing devices

Other measuring instruments include chronometers, which measure time with an accuracy sufficient for use in navigation. With their help, they determine the geographical position based on the position of the stars and planets. Today, a chronometer is commonly available on ships as a backup navigation device, and maritime professionals know how to use it in navigation. However, global navigation satellite systems are used more often than chronometers and sextants.

UTC

All over the world, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used as a universal time measurement system. It is based on the International Atomic Time (TAI) system, which uses the weighted average of more than 200 atomic clocks located around the world to calculate accurate time. Since 2012, TAI is 35 seconds ahead of UTC, because UTC, unlike TAI, uses average solar days. Since a sunny day is slightly longer than 24 hours, leap seconds are added to UTC to coordinate UTC with a solar day. Sometimes these leap seconds cause various problems, especially in areas where computers are used. To avoid such problems, some institutions, such as the server department at Google, use "leap blur" instead of seconds of coordination - lengthening a series of seconds by milliseconds so that the total of these lengthenings is equal to one second.

UTC is based on atomic clocks, while Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is based on the length of a sunny day. GMT is less accurate because it depends on the Earth's rotation period, which is not constant. GMT was widely used in the past, but UTC is now used instead.

Calendars

Calendars are composed of one or more levels of cycles, such as days, weeks, months, and years. They are divided into lunar, solar, lunar-solar.

Lunar calendars

Lunar calendars are based on the phases of the moon. Each month is one lunar cycle and the year is 12 months or 354.37 days. The lunar year is shorter than the solar year, and as a result, the lunar calendars are synchronized with the solar year only once every 33 lunar years. One of these calendars is Islamic. It is used for religious purposes and as the official calendar in Saudi Arabia.

Solar calendars

Solar calendars are based on the movement of the Sun and the seasons. Their frame of reference is a solar or tropical year, that is, the time it takes for the Sun to complete one cycle of the seasons, for example, from the winter solstice to the winter solstice. A tropical year is 365.242 days. Due to the precession of the Earth's axis, that is, a slow change in the position of the Earth's axis of rotation, a tropical year is about 20 minutes shorter than the time it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun once relative to fixed stars (sidereal year). The tropical year is gradually getting 0.53 seconds shorter every 100 tropical years, so reform will likely be needed in the future to keep solar calendars in sync with the tropical year.

The most famous and widely used solar calendar is the Gregorian. It is based on the Julian calendar, which in turn is based on the old Roman calendar. The Julian calendar assumes a year with 365.25 days. In fact, the tropical year is 11 minutes shorter. As a result of this inaccuracy, by 1582 the Julian calendar was 10 days ahead of the tropical year. The Gregorian calendar was used to correct this discrepancy and gradually replaced other calendars in many countries. In some places, including the Orthodox Church, the Julian calendar is still used. By 2013, the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars is 13 days.

To synchronize the 365-day Gregorian year with the 365.2425-day tropical year, a leap year of 366 days is added to the Gregorian calendar. This is done every four years, except for years, which are divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400. For example, 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 was not.

Lunar-solar calendars

Lunar-solar calendars - a combination of lunar and solar calendars. Usually the month in them is equal to the lunar phase, and the months alternate between 29 and 30 days, since the approximate average length of the lunar month is 29.53 days. To keep the lunisolar calendar in sync with the tropical year, a thirteenth month is added to the lunar year every few years. For example, in the Hebrew calendar, the thirteenth month is added seven times over nineteen years — this is called the 19-year cycle, or the Metonic cycle. The Chinese and Hindu calendars are also examples of lunisolar calendars.

Other calendars

Other types of calendars are based on astronomical events, such as the movement of Venus, or historical events, such as the change of rulers. For example, the Japanese chronology (年号 nengo, literally, the name of an era) is used in addition to the Gregorian calendar. The name of the year corresponds to the name of the period, which is also called the motto of the emperor, and the year of the reign of the emperor of this period. Upon accession to the throne, the new emperor confirms his motto, and the countdown of a new period begins. The emperor's motto later becomes his posthumous name. According to this scheme, 2013 is called Heisei 25, that is, the 25th year of the reign of Emperor Akihito of the Heisei period.

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Let's take a look at how to convert minutes to hours and vice versa. To begin with, let's agree that we will need knowledge of arithmetic. After all, calculations cannot be done here. If you can't do them mentally or on a piece of paper, then use a calculator. Below will be presented almost all the options for how to convert minutes into hours.

From ancient times to modern times

Look at the dial. It has 60 divisions, that is, 60 seconds (minutes). Those who are friends with mathematics have noticed long ago that this science is similar to trick, mysticism, and thus amuses. Ancient people were no more stupid than our contemporaries, on the contrary, they even succeeded in something.

What we have today:

Of course, 3600 seconds is multiplied by 60 minutes * 60 seconds. Let's take another look at the dial: for example, the hour (short hand) is at 12, and the minute (long) indicates that it is 20 minutes. That is twenty minutes past twelve. Now let's look at how to convert minutes to hours with this example.

Simple and complex calculations up to 1 hour

Think of elementary school and grade 5 arithmetic: there were fractions. What are we driving at? 1 hour \u003d 60 minutes And we only have 20 minutes. It may be incorrect to note that only 20/60 hours have passed. But we know that fractions can be reduced. Let's do that:

In total, 1/3 of an hour has passed, or, if we divide, then 0.33.

Consider another option: what does a quarter of an hour mean? How to convert minutes to hours in reverse?

1/4 hour \u003d 15 minutes. How did it happen?

15 min. / 60 min. \u003d 1/4.

How to correctly record 10 minutes in hours? The solution technique is identical:

10 min. / 60 min. \u003d 1/6 hour \u003d 0.167 hours. It is clear that such an entry is incorrect, therefore it is recommended not to translate 10 minutes.

More than an hour

Many of us have seen how, for example, it is written in the annotation for the film its duration: 150 minutes. How to convert minutes to hours in this case? Please note that there will be no fractions. Why? Because in the previous section we were talking about a time that lasted less than 1 hour. And now it's the opposite. It will be easy to look from one side, but in reality it is more difficult.

So back to 150 minutes. In order not to think for a long time, let's mentally summarize 60 minutes until we get to the cherished 150: 60 minutes. + 60 min. \u003d 120. We have to stop, because if we add another 60 minutes, then it will be 180, and we have a movie only 150 minutes. Back to our 120 minutes. Of course, this is 2 hours. Now, subtract 120 from 150 minutes. That makes 30.

You can do it differently. Stop at 120 minutes and mentally catch up with the missing half hour. Here's the result: 150 minutes. \u003d 2 hours 30 minutes \u003d 2.5 hours.

And how to get minutes from 1.5 hours? Immediately imagine 1 hour 30 minutes: 60 + 30 \u003d 90 minutes.

Another option: the arithmetic fraction is one whole and five tenths, which after transformation has the form: 15/10 \u003d 3/2. Basically, 1.5 hours is 3/2 hours.

Imagine a lesson in grade 3 that deals with fractions. There were also colored pictures that clearly showed what 5/6 or 1/2 means.

Why are such difficulties required?

Imagine studying the train schedule. As a rule, they write, for example, travel time: 1 hour 5 minutes. Everything seems to be clear. But let's imagine how much it is in minutes? 65 minutes. Other: 2 hours 35 minutes? Let's calculate:

2 hours \u003d 120 minutes, add another 35 minutes. As a result: 120 + 35 \u003d 155 minutes.

So we looked at how to convert minutes to hours and vice versa. In order to be able to quickly calculate, it is desirable to know the basics of mathematics. If you can't mentally calculate, you should solve the problem on a piece of paper.

When working with time in Excel, sometimes there is a problem of converting hours to minutes. It would seem a simple task, but often it turns out to be too tough for many users. And the point is all about the peculiarities of calculating the time in this program. Let's see how you can convert hours to minutes in Excel in various ways.

The whole difficulty of converting hours into minutes is that Excel considers time not in the way we are used to, but in days. That is, for this program, 24 hours are equal to one. The time 12:00 is represented by the program as 0.5, because 12 hours is 0.5 of a day.

To see how this happens in an example, you need to select any cell on the worksheet in time format.

And then format it to the general format. It is the number that appears in the cell that will reflect the program's perception of the entered data. Its range can range from 0 before 1 .

Therefore, the issue of converting hours into minutes should be approached precisely through the prism of this fact.

Method 1: apply the multiplication formula

The simplest way to convert hours to minutes is to multiply by a certain factor. Above, we found out that Excel perceives time in days. Therefore, to get minutes from the expression in hours, you need to multiply this expression by 60 (number of minutes in hours) and on 24 (number of hours in a day). Thus, the coefficient by which we need to multiply the value will be 60 × 24 \u003d 1440... Let's see how it will look in practice.

Method 2: using the CONVERT function

There is also another way to transform hours into minutes. To do this, you can use the special function CONVER... Please note that this option will only work when the original value is in a cell with a common format. That is, 6 hours in it should not be displayed as "6:00", but as "6", but 6 hours 30 minutes, not like "6:30", but as "6.5".

As you can see, converting hours to minutes is not as easy as it seems at first glance. This is especially problematic with time-formatted data. Fortunately, there are ways to do the transformation in this direction. One of these options is to use a coefficient, and the other is a function.