Minute

This article is about the unit of time. For angle, see Minute of arc. For the written record of a meeting, see Minutes. For other uses, see Minute (disambiguation).

minute
An analogue clock showing one minute after twelve
General information
Unit of	time
Symbol	min
Conversions
1 min in ...	... is equal to ...
SI units	60 s
Non-SI units	⁠1/60⁠ h

A minute (symbol: min) is a unit of time defined as equal to 60 seconds. The prime symbol ′ is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes.

In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds; there is also a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system.