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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