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In 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures ratified a second as being 1/31,556,925.9747 of the length of the tropical year for 1900.

Subsequently it was discovered that the year is not of constant length and so the scientific measure for a second is no longer associated with a year but with atomic time.

Convenient approximations for seconds in a year depend on the definition of the length of the year:

365 days: 31,536,000 seconds.

Making an adjustment to 365.25 days (to crudely accommodate leap years): 31,557,600 seconds.

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