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I would argue that 2 days and 1 hour is not a "number of seconds (or minutes, hours, days or weeks)"

If you say something will happen in three days, that's a big time window.



I understand what you’re saying, but minutes, hours, days and weeks are fixed time periods that can be reduced to a number of seconds. Months and years are not which is why I did not include those in my earlier post.

Calculating the calendar date for an event that’s 365 days in the future needs to consider whether leap-time corrections need to be made during the period. We do that already for days with our standard calendar.

Edited.


If someone says an event is in X days, they almost never mean a multiple of 86k seconds.

Really, I don't think you can reduce any of these to a specific number of seconds. If someone says an event is in 14 hours, the meaning is a lot closer to 14±½ * 3600 than it is to 14 * 3600.




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