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Time Converter

Convert between seconds, minutes, hours, days and years.

Converted locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
  • From milliseconds up to years in one view.
  • Useful for turning API timeouts, cache TTLs and rate limits into human units.
  • Runs in your browser.

Why this is private

  • Converted locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
  • Open your browser's DevTools → Network tab while using this tool — you won't see a request carrying your input, because it never leaves your device.
  • Nothing you enter is uploaded to a server or shared with us — the processing happens entirely on your device.

Overview

Converts durations between milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and years.

How to use it

  1. 1Enter a value and pick its unit.
  2. 2Pick the target unit.
  3. 3The result updates instantly.

Tips

  • The "year" unit here is a flat 365 days, matching the label — it doesn't average in leap years. For exact calendar spacing between two real dates, use the Date Difference Calculator instead.

Frequently asked questions

What people use it for

Read a timeout or TTL in secondsConvert a 3600-second cache lifetime to "1 hour".
Work out a duration in daysTurn 100,000 minutes into days to gauge a deadline.
Convert a video or audio lengthExpress a total in seconds as minutes and hours.
Estimate elapsed time from millisecondsTurn a benchmark's millisecond figure into seconds or minutes.

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