YEARS2SECONDS

Purpose:

Converts years to seconds.

Syntax:

YEARS2SECONDS(years)

years

-

A scalar or series, the years values.

Returns:

A series or array of Seconds values.

Example:

years2seconds(3)

 

Returns 94608000, the number of seconds in three years.

Example:

seconds2years(years2seconds(3))

 

Returns 3.0 years showing SECONDS2YEARS and YEARS2SECONDS are inverse functions.

Example:

W1: 0..0.2..1

W2: years2hours(w1)

W3: hours2years(w2)

 

W1 contains the years series {0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0}.

W2 contains the hour series {0, 1752, 3504, 5256, 7008, 8760}.

W3 recovers the original years series.

Remarks:

YEARS2HOURS converts a year value or series to hours.

 

YEARS2HOURS assumes that a leap year can occur four years after the first full year.

 

See SECONDS2YEARS to convert seconds to years.

See Also:

SECONDS2YEARS

YEARS2DAYS

YEARS2HOURS

YEARS2MINUTES