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1 E4 s

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10⁴ seconds and 10⁵ seconds (2.78 hours and 27.8 hours). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

Shorter times
10 000 seconds = 2.77 hours
8 hours -- one work day[?] in most Western countries. Also most people's daily need for sleep
10 hours -- one work day[?] in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
23 hours 56 minutes -- time for Earth's rotation around its axis
one day = 24 hours
100 000 seconds = 27.8 hours

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