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When you want to express a passage of time mixing time units like days, hours,
and minutes is it best to use for example 間 once at the end to show duration,
or should words showing duration be used for every step, or maybe a mix of
both? Should you use と to separate some of the units?

What is the best way to express this?

> 1 year, 3 months, 22 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes, 14 seconds
>
> １年間３ヶ月２２日間１９時間２５分間１４秒間
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> １年３ヶ月２２日１９時２５分１４秒間
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> １年３月２２日１９時２５分１４秒間
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> (The last one feels weird because ３月 is March in my head)

I know from [this question and
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9797/why-
is-%E9%96%93%E3%81%8B%E3%82%93-used-to-denote-some-amounts-of-time-but-not-
others "The 間 in 一時間 and 一週間 is a part of the counter words for "hour" and
"week", but the counter words for "minute", "month" and "year" are 分, ヶ月 and 年
\(not 分間, ヵ月間, 年間\), and the 間 in 一分間, 一ヶ月間 and 一年間 is more like "for~~" or
"during~~".") that year, month, and minute (and I assume second) is not
counted with 間. Would that make this correct?

> １年３ヶ月２２日１９時間２５分１４秒

Or this?

> １年３ヶ月２２日間１９時間２５分１４秒
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How do you express time duration when mixing time units?
"1年3ヶ月22日19時間25分14秒" works fine in scientific/technological contexts. In real
conversations or mails, people usually add some と, typically after 1年, 22日
and/or 25分. と is sometimes mandatory because 1日1時間 usually means "an hour per
day".

As you already understand, [3月]{さんがつ} only means _March_ and 19時 only means
_19 o'clock_. Using more than one 間 will make the phrase a bit clumsy.

Here are some more realistic examples:

>   * 2日と5時間
>   * 3時間(と)15分
>   * 1年と150日間 / 1年間と150日
>   * 1分間と5秒 / 1分と5秒間
>   * 1日と5分間 (this と is mandatory)
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