Century
Unit of time lasting 100 years / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c.[1]
A centennial or centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier.
A century from now will be 04:21, 14 March 2123.