Moments to Minutes (moment to min)

1 moment equals 1.5 minutes exactly.

1 moment = 1.5 minutes

How to convert moments to minutes

To convert moments to minutes, multiply the number of moments by 1.5. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply minutes by 0.6666666667 (rounded).

minutes = moments × 1.5

Example: 10 moments = 15 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.

Approximate value. Standards for the moment varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Moment (moment)

Medieval EnglishHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

About ninety seconds, one fortieth of a solar hour. A medieval unit of time described by the English monk Bede.

Medieval computists, the scholars who worked out the calendar and the date of Easter, used the moment as a small slice of the hour. The Venerable Bede described it in the 8th century. It was one fortieth of a solar hour, measured by the motion of a sundial shadow, and since the solar hour varied with the season, the moment was not fixed.

On average a moment equalled about 90 seconds, which is the figure used here. Bede's scheme also had the punctum at four per hour, the minutum at ten and the pars at fifteen, so a day held 960 moments. Bartholomeus Anglicus and Roger Bacon later wrote about the system, and Bacon subdivided the moment into 12 ounces of 47 atoms each. The modern phrase a moment is much looser, and the ostent that Bacon mentioned is seen as a forerunner of the modern minute.

1 moment = 90 seconds (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Moment (time)

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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