As a saying goes, “Life is not about how many breaths you take, but instead how many moments take your breath away.” Those precious moments are measured by minutes or even seconds. Every minute counts in life.
Have you ever wondered how many minutes or hours are in a year? The short answer is, there are approximately 525,600 minutes or 8760 hours in a common year and 527,040 minutes or 8784 hours in a leap year. This is based on a calendar year of 365 days. The more exact answer is 525,948.7666 minutes or 8765.8128 hours per calendar year.
As we discussed in this post, there are common years and leap years. Leap year has 366 days and it happens every four years. A calendar year has 365 days. However, it takes Earth approximately 365.242189 days, or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, to circle once around the Sun. It’s called an astronomical year. That’s why we need to add one leap day every 4 years to account for the discrepancy.
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