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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10⁴ seconds and 10⁵ seconds (2.78 hours and 27.8 hours). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

• Shorter times
• 10 000 seconds = 2.77 hours
• 8 hours -- one work day[?] in most Western countries. Also most people's daily need for sleep
• 10 hours -- one work day[?] in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
• 23 hours 56 minutes -- time for Earth's rotation around its axis
• one day = 24 hours
• 100 000 seconds = 27.8 hours

Longer times