This measurement unit is considered to be relatively new (especially comparing to the ones of hour or second), and it starts its history only in the Middle Ages, when the first water powered more precise time keeping devices were invented instead of common solar or sand clocks. Minute is a unit of time measurement that is equal to 1/60 of an hour or 60 seconds. Hour as a time measurement unit is extensively used in science and is applied for defining various related measurement units like kilometers per hour, ampere-hour, kilowatt-hour, etc. Though the history of using an hour as a part of solar day is believed to be starting from the epochs of Ancient Egypt, the concept of an hour as we know it now emerged in the early 13 th century, when scientists in Ancient Greece came up with the idea of dividing a solar day exactly into 24 equal parts. The unit is used and recognized by SI and has the symbol of h. Hour is a common time measurement unit equal to 60 minutes, 3,600 seconds, or 1/24 of solar day. Also, you can use the hours to minutes conversion chart on the bottom of the page.
For your convenience, there is also some useful information related to this kind of conversions. This webpage offers an effective online hours to minutes calculator which can be used at any time for making this kind of time measurement unit conversions.
We're very often in need of knowing how many minutes a certain amount of time in hours will take.
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