12 minutes and 59 seconds in seconds

Result

12 minutes 59 seconds equals 779 seconds

Converter

How to convert 12 minutes 59 seconds to seconds?

In order to convert 12 minutes and 59 seconds to seconds we need to take the minutes part and transform it into seconds. We know that 1 minute equals 60 seconds. Therefore to get the number of minutes in seconds we need to multiply the amount of minutes by 60. In this case we have to multiply 12 minutes by 60:

12m × 60s = 720 seconds

Now we have to add both amount of seconds to get the final result:

720s + 59s = 779 seconds

Finally we can say that 12 min 59 sec is equivalent to 779 seconds:

12 minutes and 59 seconds = 779 seconds

Twelve minutes and fifty-nine seconds is equal to seven hundred seventy-nine seconds.

Conversion table

For quick reference purposes, below is the minutes and seconds to seconds conversion table:

minutes(m) seconds(s) seconds(s)
13 minutes 59 seconds 839 seconds
14 minutes 59 seconds 899 seconds
15 minutes 59 seconds 959 seconds
16 minutes 59 seconds 1019 seconds
17 minutes 59 seconds 1079 seconds
18 minutes 59 seconds 1139 seconds
19 minutes 59 seconds 1199 seconds
20 minutes 59 seconds 1259 seconds
21 minutes 59 seconds 1319 seconds
22 minutes 59 seconds 1379 seconds

Units definitions

The units involved in this conversion are minutes, seconds and seconds. This is how they are defined:

Minutes

The second (symbol: s, also abbreviated: sec) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as 1⁄86400 of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400).

Seconds

The minute is a unit of time usually equal to 1⁄60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is 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). Although not an SI unit, the minute is accepted for use with SI units. The SI symbol for minute or minutes is min (without a dot).