Ghati
24 minutes, one sixtieth of a day. A traditional Indian unit of time, kept alive mainly in astrology and traditional timekeeping.
1 ghati = 1,440 seconds (exactly).
About the ghati
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.
Sources: Wikipedia: Hindu units of time; Wikipedia: Muhurta
Ghati conversion chart
1 ghati expressed in every other time unit:
| Unit | 1 ghati |
|---|---|
| Seconds | 1,440 |
| Minutes | 24 |
| Hours | 0.4 |
| Days | 0.01666666667 |
| Weeks | 0.002380952381 |
| Months | 0.0005475814014 |
| Years | 0.00004563178345 |
| Milliseconds | 1,440,000 |
| Microseconds | 1,440,000,000 |
| Nanoseconds | 1,440,000,000,000 |
| Decades | 0.000004563178345 |
| Centuries | 4.563178345×10⁻⁷ |
| Millennia | 4.563178345×10⁻⁸ |
| Picoseconds | 1.44×10¹⁵ |
| Common Years | 0.00004566210046 |
| Leap Years | 0.00004553734062 |
| Julian Years | 0.00004563084645 |
| Tropical Years | 0.00004563182218 |
| Sidereal Years | 0.00004563005153 |
| Synodic Months | 0.0005643865113 |
| Sidereal Days | 0.0167122985 |
| Aeons | 4.563178345×10⁻¹⁴ |
| Shakes | 144,000,000,000 |
| Fortnights | 0.00119047619 |
| Score | 0.000002281589172 |
| Lustra | 0.00000912635669 |
| Olympiads | 0.00001140794586 |
| Indictions | 0.000003042118897 |
| Jubilees | 9.12635669×10⁻⁷ |
| Muhurtas | 0.5 |
| Prahar | 0.1333333333 |
| Shichen | 0.2 |
| Moments | 16 |
| Ship's Watches | 0.1 |
| Kin (Maya) | 0.01666666667 |
| Winals | 0.0008333333333 |
| Tun (Maya) | 0.0000462962963 |
| Katuns | 0.000002314814815 |
| Baktuns | 1.157407407×10⁻⁷ |
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