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

• shorter times
• 10,379 seconds = 2 hours 52 minutes 59 seconds = the length of the record New York – London Concorde flight
• 14,280 seconds = 3 hours, 58 minutes - length of Gone With the Wind, the longest film to receive the Best Picture Oscar (including musical interludes)
• 25,200 seconds = 7 hours – one work day in France.
• 28,800 seconds = 8 hours – one work day in many Western countries
• 28,800 seconds = 8 hours – common human daily need for sleep
• 36,000 seconds = 10 hours – one work day in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
• 54,000 seconds = 15 hours – approximate length of Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen
• 67,800 seconds = 18 hours, 50 minutes: length of Singapore Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey to Singapore, the longest non-stop scheduled flight.
• 72,606 seconds = 20 hours 10 minutes 6 seconds – the world record of human standing motionlessly as of 2005^[update] [1]
• 80,100 seconds = 22.25 hours – approximate time taken to solve the DES Challenge III of RSA on January 18 - 19 1999[2]
• 86,164 seconds = 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds – time for Earth’s rotation around its axis
• 86,400 seconds = 24 hours = one day
• 88,775 seconds = 24 hours 39 minutes - a solar day on Mars
• 97,200 seconds = 27 hours: the length of The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, the longest film ever to receive a wide release.

[edit] Half lives

• 19,872 seconds = 5.52 hours – half-life of mendelevium-257
• 37,296 seconds = 10.36 hours – half-life of erbium-165
• 91,404 seconds = 25.39 hours – half-life of fermium-252
• longer times