Convert and Plot Days and Years
Published in May 2010Filed as : Date and Time
ShareThisThe conversions performed with the tools on this web site have a shortcoming that was not expected. The shortcoming is Mother Earth in all its glory. While working on the days and years unit converter we learned that the earthquake in Chile on February 27, 2010, shifted the Earth's axis resulting in shorter days. The change is not significant since it is only 1.26 microseconds, but hopefully we will not experience many such earthquakes in the future.
We had planned to measure the year as 365.2425 days, but we have officially changed it to 365.24204 after the measurements on the axis shift. Unit facts: One year is now 365.24204 days. One day is 0.0027379104552148487616595285690552 years.
Demonstration data:
- 85351 days have passed since the United States Declaration of Independence until March 10, 2010
- 24008 days have passed since Iceland became independent until March 10, 2010
- 17865 days have passed since Yuri Gagarin made an orbit around the Earth until March 10, 2010
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