# time

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/30720
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 25, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/30720 "2000-08-25T14:35:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/30720/21 "2000-08-27T07:22:03Z")

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The speed of light in my previous post is wrong. It’s not roughly 186,000 miles per hour. It’s roughly 186,000 miles per **second**.

Thanks god I posted this in the wee hours of the morning or I’d have been toast before I caught this.

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### Author: ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/30720/22 "2000-08-27T07:49:32Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Jeff\_42 \*  
> \*\*Thanks god I posted this in the wee hours of the morning or I’d have been toast before I caught this. \*\*

How many times have I said that?

Anyway, the speed of light is exactly 299792458 m/s

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