A kilosecond is one thousand seconds. It can be written as 103 seconds. It is equal to 16 minutes, 40 seconds. There are 86.4 kiloseconds in one day (24 hours).
2.7 kiloseconds = 45 minutes – the length of the Anglo-Zanzibar War, the shortest war in history
2.926 kiloseconds = 48 minutes 46 seconds – the change in time of moon rise from one day to the next