LDAPWiki: Year

Overview#

Year is the orbital period of "time" it takes for the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.[1]

Year is 12 Months
Year is 52 Weeks
Year is 365.24 Days
Year is 8,765 Hours
Year is 526,000 Minutes
Year is 31.6 million seconds

These of course do not take into account a leap year

Ten Years is a Decade
Hundred Years is a Century
Thousand Years is a Millennium

Non-SI abbreviation	Short for...	SI-prefixed equivalent	Comments and examples
kyr	kilo years	ka	* Thousand years
myr Myr	million years Mega years	Ma	* Million years
byr	billion years	Ga	* Billion years ( thousand million years)
kya	kilo years ago	ka ago	* Appearance of Homo sapiens, circa 200 kya * Out-of-Africa migration , circa 60 kya * Last Glacial Maximum , circa 20 kya * Neolithic Revolution , circa 10 kya
mya Mya	million years ago Mega years ago	Ma ago	* Pliocene , 5.3 to 2.6 mya * The last geomagnetic reversal was 0.78 mya[30] * The ( Eemian Stage ) Ice Age started 0.13 mya * The Holocene started 0.01 mya
bya Gya	billion years ago giga years ago	Ga ago	* oldest Eukaryotes , 2 bya * formation of the Earth , 4.5 bya * Big Bang , 13.8 bya

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