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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10⁹ seconds (a "gigasecond") and 10¹⁰ seconds (31.7 years and 317 years). "See also" times of other orders of magnitude

*Shorter times
*35 years (1.10 × 10⁹ s) -- Constitutionally-mandated minimum age for President of the United States.
*36 years (1.14 × 10⁹ s) -- recorded maximum lifespan of a cat
*50.5 years (1.59 × 10⁹ s) -- average age of human menopause
*61 years (1.92 × 10⁹ s) -- time since Indian independence as of 2008
*63 years (1.99 × 10⁹ s) -- half-life of titanium-44
*65 years (2.05 × 10⁹ s) -- a common age for retirement of workers
*68.9 years (2.17 × 10⁹ s) -- half-life of uranium-232
*72 years, 3 months, 18 days (2.28 × 10⁹ s) -- reign of Louis XIV
*74 years (2.34 × 10⁹ s) -- duration of communist rule in Russia
*75 years (2.37 × 10⁹ s) -- average life span of humans in the First World
*78 years (2.46 × 10⁹ s) -- estimated maximum lifespan of an elephant
*81 years (2.56 × 10⁹ s)-- age of commercially-viable "talking pictures" as of 2008
*84.3 years (2.66 × 10⁹ s) -- one orbit of Uranus
*100 years (3.16 × 10⁹ s) -- one century
*100.1 years (3.16 × 10⁹ s) -- half-life of nickel-63
*111 years (3.50 × 10⁹ s) -- time since the first modern Olympic Games (1896)
*122 years and 164 days (3.86 × 10⁹ s) -- longest recorded lifespan of any known human (Jeanne Calment)
*130 years (4.1 × 10⁹ s) -- approximate age of the telephone, recorded sound, and the electric light
*165 years (5.21 × 10⁹ s) -- one orbit of Neptune
*184 years (5.81 × 10⁹ s) -- time since the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as of 2008.
*190 years (6 × 10⁹ s) -- credited age of the oldest known tortoise, oldest land animal
*219 years (6.91 × 10⁹ s) -- time (in 2008) since the French Revolution
*232 years (7.32 × 10⁹ s) -- age of the United States of America as of 2008
*247.7 years (7.82 × 10⁹ s) -- one orbit of Pluto
*269 years (8.49 × 10⁹ s) -- half-life of argon-39
*288 years (9.09 × 10⁹ s) -- one orbit of Quaoar
*302 years (9.53 × 10⁹ s) -- duration of Spanish colonial rule in Mexico
*304 years (9.59 × 10⁹ s) -- duration of the Romanov dynasty in Russia
*310 years (9.8 × 10⁹ s) -- one orbit of Makemake
*Longer times