Seconds to Days Conversion
Enter the time in seconds below to get the value converted to days.
How to Convert Seconds to Days
To convert a second measurement to a day measurement, divide the time by the conversion ratio. One day is equal to 86,400 seconds, so use this simple formula to convert:
The time in days is equal to the seconds divided by 86,400.
Seconds and days are both units used to measure time. Keep reading to learn more about each unit of measure.
Seconds
The second has historically been defined as 1/60 of a minute or 1/86,400 of a day. According the to SI definition, the second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the unperturbed ground state of the caesium 133 atom.[1]
The second is the SI base unit for time in the metric system. Seconds can be abbreviated as sec, for example 1 second can be written as 1 sec.
Days
One day is the time it takes for the Earth to complete a single rotation around its axis in relation to the Sun. There are 24 hours in a day.
The day is an SI accepted unit for time for use with the metric system. Days can be abbreviated as day, for example 1 day can be written as 1 day.
Second to Day Conversion Table
| Seconds | Days |
|---|---|
| 1 sec | 0.000011574 day |
| 2 sec | 0.000023148 day |
| 3 sec | 0.000034722 day |
| 4 sec | 0.000046296 day |
| 5 sec | 0.00005787 day |
| 6 sec | 0.000069444 day |
| 7 sec | 0.000081019 day |
| 8 sec | 0.000092593 day |
| 9 sec | 0.000104 day |
| 10 sec | 0.000116 day |
| 100 sec | 0.001157 day |
| 1,000 sec | 0.011574 day |
| 10,000 sec | 0.115741 day |
| 100,000 sec | 1.1574 day |
References
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures, The International System of Units, 9th Edition, 2019, https://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si-brochure/SI-Brochure-9.pdf
