Conversion formula

The conversion factor from days to seconds is 86400, which means that 1 day is equal to 86400 seconds:

1 d = 86400 s

To convert 0.5 days into seconds we have to multiply 0.5 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from days to seconds. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 d → 86400 s

0.5 d → T_(s)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in seconds:

T_(s) = 0.5 d × 86400 s

T_(s) = 43200 s

The final result is:

0.5 d → 43200 s

We conclude that 0.5 days is equivalent to 43200 seconds:

0.5 days = 43200 seconds

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 second is equal to 2.3148148148148E-5 × 0.5 days.

Another way is saying that 0.5 days is equal to 1 ÷ 2.3148148148148E-5 seconds.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that zero point five days is approximately forty-three thousand two hundred seconds:

0.5 d ≅ 43200 s

An alternative is also that one second is approximately zero times zero point five days.

Conversion table

days to seconds chart

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from days to seconds