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Yes, one vexing thing is the inability of search engines to convert time. 5209s to hours and minutes? Oh, I still need to tell you how to do in steps. Why is this so?



> inability of search engines to convert time. 5209s to hours and minutes?

Kagi just resolved “5209 s in h” quite perfectly.


Yes that's the news here, it now does all the math for you. Other search engines don't know how to do it -or- they only do the first step. Your example doesn't do what I asked. I want input to be converted to hours, minutes, and it should ideally give me both outputs: additional remaining seconds and the decimal. Wolfram Alpha's output has what I want, but it also adds what I don't:

Input interpretation

convert 5209 seconds to hours, minutes

     Results

     1 hour 26.82 minutes <==OK

     1.447 hours <==Not asked for

     Additional conversions

     1 hour 26 minutes 49 seconds <==Acceptable interpretation




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