SECONDS2YEARS

Purpose:

Converts seconds to years.

Syntax:

SECONDS2YEARS(seconds)

seconds

-

A scalar or series, the seconds values.

Returns:

A series or array of year values.

Example:

seconds2years(3)

 

Returns 9.512938E-08, the number of years in three seconds.

Example:

years2seconds(seconds2years(3))

 

Returns 3.0 seconds showing YEARS2SECONDS and SECONDS2YEARS are inverse functions.

Example:

W1: 0..6307200..31536000

W2: seconds2years(w1)

W3: years2seconds(w2)

 

W1 contains the seconds series {0, 6307200, 12614400, 18921600, 25228800, 31536000}.

W2 contains the years series {0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0}.

W3 recovers the original seconds series.

Remarks:

SECONDS2YEARS converts a seconds value or series to years.

 

SECONDS2YEARS assumes that a leap year can occur four years after the first full year.

 

See YEARS2SECONDS to convert a years value or series to seconds.

See Also:

DAYS2SECONDS

SECONDS2DAYS

SECONDS2HOURS

SECONDS2MINUTES

YEARS2SECONDS