The Transformers had different units of time than we did. The list is provided below but it would be cool to see the equivalents in everyday units. It might be a tad confusing because Transformers universe had its own but I am willing to give it a shot, eventually.
Time
| Name | Continuity | Duration | Description/Reference (if any) |
| Astrosecond | .498 seconds | 1/1000th of a breem. It would be more than than a million years if done properly however, in the Generation 1 cartoon, astroseconds appeared to be much shorter than one second each. | |
| Breem | 8.3 minutes | ||
| Century | ????? | "Cybertronian century" = millions of years. | |
| Cycle | G1 UK comics | 2 hours | |
| Cycle | Beast Wars | ~1 minute | very roughly equivalent to a minute. |
| Cycle | IDW comics | 1 hour 15 min (1.25 hours) | defined by Simon Furman |
| Deca-cycle | Beast Wars | ~ 1 year | |
| Deca-cycle | IDW comics | ~ 3 weeks | defined by Simon Furman |
| Groon | ~1 hour | From "The Magnificant Six" comic in the Generation 1 UK comics | |
| Joor | ????? | From "The Magnificant Six" comic in the Generation 1 UK comics | |
| Kilk | 1.2 Earth Minutes | Defined by Simon Furman | |
| Mega-cycle | Animated | ???? | "Lost and Found" episode--season 1. Ratchet estimated that it would take 10 mega-cycles to repair the Ark with the help of Sari's key. |
| Mega-cycle | Beast-wars | ~1 hour | |
| Mega-cycle | IDW comics | 93 hours | defined by Simon Furman |
| Mega-cycle | 13 months | ||
| Milli-cycle | ???? | often mentioned since the 6th episode in Beast Wars | |
| Nano-kilk | Animated | ~1 second or ~1 minute | In "Home is Where the Spark is", this got mentioned during a conversation between Optimus Prime and Prowl. |
| Nano-kilk | Beast Wars | ~1 second | |
| Orn | ??????? | "one Cybertronian lunar day". | |
| Quartex | ????? | very first episode (MTMTE)--1984. A conversation between Wheeljack and Bumblebee. | |
| Solar Cycle | Animated | ~1 year | In "Transform and Roll Out part 3", Starscream refers to the 50-year span between the Ark/Nemesis battle and the present as 50 solar cycles. |
| Solar cycle | Beast Machines | ~1 day | "The Weak Component", Rattrap say "half a solar cycle" to leave the Predacons alone in order to gain strength--one night, from dusk to dawn. |
| Stellar cycle | Animated | ~1 year | synonymous with solar cycle in this continuity. |
| Stellar cycle | Beast Wars | ~400 days | Orbital period (a Cybertronian "year"). Cybertron's rotational period ("day") is ~20 hours? |
| Stellar cycle | IDW comics | ~7.5 months | defined by Simon Furman |
| Trimara | Beast Wars | ????? | Beast Wars: The Ascending #2 |
| Vorn | 83 years |
Source: Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki
Another chart developed by a personal friend of mine, Raven, owner of The Shadow Realm. Cybertronian Unit chart
Distance
| Name | Continuty | Equivalent | References (if any) |
| Hic | Generation 1 | ~mile or kilometer | |
| Mechanometer | Generation 1 | ?????? | |
| Megamile | Generation 1 | ????? | at the beginning of the MTMTE part I episode: Wheeljack |
| vun | Generation 1 | ~hectometer |
Source: Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki
Liquid?
| Name | Continuity | Equivalent | References (if any) |
| Astroliters | Generation 1 | ??????? | "In the Ultimate Doom part 3" episode, Prowl calculated that it would an explosion of 10 billion astroliters of energy to get Cybertron out of Earth's orbit. |
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Created/Designed on April 28, 2008 Updated on September 9, 2010 cascadia2008@hotmail.com