Hour: Facilitating a workshop and having the group

Facilitating a workshop and having the group stick to the program is not always easy. Especially when it's a good session. The group of important stakeholders is all enthusiastic and they just can’t stop discussing which idea is the best. Now Big Timer is there to help you end the session in time! An hour is a unit of time — it's sixty minutes, 3,600 seconds, or the length it takes the long hand on your watch to move in a full circle. Definition of Hour explained with real-life illustrated examples. Also, learn the facts about hours in a day and its history at SplashLearn. hour, in timekeeping, 3,600 seconds, now defined in terms of radiation emitted from atoms of the element cesium under specified conditions. The hour was formerly defined as the 24th part of a mean solar day — i.e., of the average period of rotation of the Earth relative to the Sun. The hour of sidereal time, 1/24 of the Earth’s rotation period relative to the stars, was about 10 seconds shorter than the hour of mean solar time.