Not the “seconds” they had in mind
You definitely have to be particular when dealing with these people. If not, they’ll make you appear a little foolish. When the typical person read this question, they would naturally assume that the speaker was discussing seconds as a unit of measurement for time.
But whoever answered was undoubtedly thinking beyond the box. For added fun, there are more than 30,000,000 seconds in a year. That’s a lot of seconds in a year, huh? It was killing us, and we had to know.