It displaced tide tīd, "time" and stound stund, span of time. Hour is a development of the Anglo-Norman houre and Middle English ure, first attested in the 13th century. 4 History of timekeeping in other cultures.However, on rare occasions an hour may incorporate a positive or negative leap second, making it last 3,599 or 3,601 seconds, in order to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1, which is based on measurements of the mean solar day. In the modern metric system, hours are an accepted unit of time defined as 3,600 atomic seconds. Since this unit was not constant due to long term variations in the Earth's rotation, the hour was finally separated from the Earth's rotation and defined in terms of the atomic or physical second. Such seasonal, temporal, or unequal hours varied by season and latitude.Įqual or equinoctial hours were taken as 1⁄ 24 of the day as measured from noon to noon the minor seasonal variations of this unit were eventually smoothed by making it 1⁄ 24 of the mean solar day.
The hour was initially established in the ancient Near East as a variable measure of 1⁄ 12 of the night or daytime. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day. on a 24-hour clock with a digital faceĪn hour ( symbol: h also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as 1⁄ 24 of a day and scientifically reckoned between 3,599 and 3,601 seconds, depending on the speed of Earth's rotation.
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