Kin (Maya) to Years (kin to yr)
1 kin (Maya) equals 0.002737907007 years (rounded).
How to convert kin (Maya) to years
To convert kin (Maya) to years, multiply the number of kin (Maya) by 0.002737907007. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply years by 365.2425.
years = kin (Maya) × 0.002737907007
Example: 10 kin (Maya) = 0.02737907007 years.
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)
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
Year (yr)
The average Gregorian calendar year of 365.2425 days (31,556,952 seconds). A common year has 365 days and a leap year 366.
A year is the Earth's trip around the Sun, but there are several versions. The tropical year, which tracks the seasons, is about 365.2422 days. The sidereal year, measured against the stars, is about 365.2564 days, roughly 20 minutes longer, because the Earth's axis precesses. Calendars must squeeze these into whole days, which is the origin of leap years. English year descends from Old English gear, while Latin annus, the source of annual, comes from a different root.
The Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII's bull of 24 February 1582, fixed the problem of Julian drift that had moved the March equinox away from 21 March and upset the date of Easter. Ten days were skipped, so Thursday 4 October was followed by Friday 15 October. Its rule of skipping leap days in century years not divisible by 400 gives a mean year of 365.2425 days, the value this site uses for the year. Britain and its empire switched in 1752 and Russia in 1918. Scientists write the year as a, with the Julian year fixed at 31,557,600 seconds.
1 year = 31,556,952 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Year; Wikipedia: Gregorian calendar
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