Kin (Maya) to Minutes (kin to min)

1 kin (Maya) equals 1,440 minutes exactly.

1 kin (Maya) = 1,440 minutes

How to convert kin (Maya) to minutes

To convert kin (Maya) to minutes, multiply the number of kin (Maya) by 1,440. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply minutes by 0.0006944444444 (rounded).

minutes = kin (Maya) × 1,440

Example: 10 kin (Maya) = 14,400 minutes.

Months and years are not constant. This site uses the average Gregorian year of 365.2425 days, so one 'year' converts to 365.2425 days, not 365; use 'common year' for exactly 365 days.

About these units

Kin (Maya) (kin)

MayaHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

One day, the basic unit of the Maya Long Count calendar.

In Mayan languages the word kʼin also means sun, and as a calendar term it names a single day. It is the smallest unit counted in the Long Count, the Maya system for numbering days from a fixed starting point, and it normally appears as the last position in a written date.

Inscriptions carved on stone monuments open with an Initial Series that lists the larger cycles first and ends with the kin count, a number from 0 to 19. Reaching 20 kin rolls the count over into the next unit, the winal. Because the kin is simply one day, no uncertainty attaches to its size: it matches the modern 86,400 second day used here, even though the Maya reckoned days from their own observations and not by clock time. Scholars still debate how Long Count dates line up with European ones, but that affects the date assigned to a day, not its length.

1 kin (Maya) = 86,400 seconds (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Kʼin; Wikipedia: Maya calendar; Wikipedia: Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

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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