Weeks to Moments (wk to moment)

1 week equals 6,720 moments exactly.

1 week = 6,720 moments

How to convert weeks to moments

To convert weeks to moments, multiply the number of weeks by 6,720. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply moments by 0.0001488095238 (rounded).

moments = weeks × 6,720

Example: 10 weeks = 67,200 moments.

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

Week (wk)

CalendarCurrent unit

Seven days. The seven-day week comes from the ancient Near East and is nearly universal in the modern calendar.

Nothing in the sky produces a seven-day cycle, which makes the week a human invention with a contested pedigree. Babylonians marked the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th of the lunar month as special, but that was not a continuous cycle. A continuous seven-day cycle tied to the Sabbath is attested in Judaism by the 6th century BC at the latest, and scholars disagree on whether it was borrowed from Babylon or developed independently. The Romans later used a week named for the Sun, the Moon and the five visible planets, and in AD 321 Emperor Constantine decreed it across the empire.

A week is seven days, or 604,800 seconds, and it divides evenly into neither months nor years, which is why calendars shift against it. The ISO 8601 standard starts each week on Monday and assigns week 1 to the week containing the year's first Thursday, so some years have a week 53. Other societies used different lengths: Rome had an eight-day market cycle, and revolutionary France used a ten-day week from 1793 to 1802. The English word comes from Old English wice, meaning a turn or succession.

1 week = 604,800 seconds (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Week; Wikipedia: ISO week date

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)

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