Ghati to Minutes (ghati to min)

1 ghati equals 24 minutes exactly.

1 ghati = 24 minutes

How to convert ghati to minutes

To convert ghati to minutes, multiply the number of ghati by 24. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply minutes by 0.04166666667 (rounded).

minutes = ghati × 24

Example: 10 ghati = 240 minutes.

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About these units

Ghati (ghati)

Indian subcontinentHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

24 minutes, one sixtieth of a day. A traditional Indian unit of time, kept alive mainly in astrology and traditional timekeeping.

Sixty ghatis, also written ghati or ghatika, fill one day and night in traditional Indian reckoning, so each lasts 24 minutes. Astronomical texts such as the Surya Siddhanta divide it further, with 60 vighati in a ghati. Wikipedia's table lists the pala at about 24 seconds, though it marks the sidereal table as failing verification, so the finer subdivisions should be treated with care.

The ghati fits into larger units in a simple way. Two ghatis make a muhurta, and 7.5 ghatis make the three-hour yama that appears in the tropical table.

The unit survives mainly in astrology and in writing about traditional timekeeping. The figure used here is the plain 24-minute ghati, one sixtieth of a 24-hour day.

1 ghati = 1,440 seconds (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hindu units of time; Wikipedia: Muhurta

Minute (min)

Metric (SI)Current unit

60 seconds. Defined as one sixtieth of an hour.

Minute means small, not short. It comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, the first small part, produced when sixty-based division was applied to the hour. Al-Biruni is credited with dividing the hour into minutes, seconds, thirds and fourths around the year 1000, and Roger Bacon used the same scheme in 1267. For everyday life the minute needed hardware: Jost Bürgi is said to have made the first clock with a minute hand, for Tycho Brahe in 1577, and watches got minute hands only after Thomas Tompion's hairspring of 1675 made them accurate enough.

A minute is 60 seconds, exactly 1/60 of an hour, and the BIPM's SI Brochure is the reference for its symbol, min. Civil timekeeping can bend the rule: because of leap seconds, a UTC minute occasionally holds 61 seconds. A negative leap second would produce a 59-second minute, but that has never happened in more than 40 years. People use the minute for cooking, lectures and phone calls, and the same name serves for the arcminute, which is a sixtieth of a degree.

1 minute = 60 seconds (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Minute; BIPM: SI Brochure, 9th edition; NIST: the second and the SI redefinition

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