Time Conversions

Days, Hours, and Minutes to Decimal Day Format

Convert days, hours, minutes and seconds into a decimal day format. In addition, it converts the combined units into seconds.


Time Units to Decimal Format

Days d
Hours h
Minutes min
Seconds s
Decimal Rounding #

Results:

Decimal Days d
Seconds s

Calculation

  1. enter the number of days
  2. hours
  3. minutes
  4. seconds
  5. decimal precision, the number of digits after the decimal point

Result

  1. the time in decimal day format
  2. the time converted to seconds

Example Conversions
23 days, 12 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds

With the whole days amount of 23, you don't have to do anything , and becomes the amount before the decimal point;
23 days = 23.0 days  in decimal format.

There are 24 hours in a day.
Convert the hours to decimal days by dividing the 12 hours by 24;
12 ÷ 24 = 0.5
12 hours in a decimal days equals 0.5 days.

There are 1440 min in a day.
Convert the minutes to a decimal day format by dividing the 5 minutes by 1440;
5 ÷ 1440 = 0.0034722
5 minutes equals 0.0034722 in decimal days

Convert the seconds to decimal days by dividing the 6 seconds by 86400 (there are 86400 seconds in a day)
6 ÷ 86400 = 0.000069444
6 seconds in decimal day format = 0.0000694

Add all the results together;
23 + 0.5 + 0.0034722 + 0.0000694 = 23.50354
23 days, 12 hours , 5 minutes, 6 seconds = 23.50354 in decimal format

23 days, 12 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds = 23.50354 days in decimal format.
Converting Decimal Days to Seconds
There are 86400 seconds in a day.
Multiply 23.50354 days by 86400 ;
23.50354 * 86400 = 2030705.856 rounded to 2030706
There are 2030706 seconds in 23.50354 decimal days.
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