Except it does:
One Minute (Local)
Walk 150 ft. 200 ft. 300 ft. 400 ft.
Hustle 300 ft. 400 ft. 600 ft. 800 ft.
Run(×3) 450 ft. 600 ft. 900 ft. 1,200 ft.
Run(×4) 600 ft. 800 ft. 1200ft. 1,600 ft.
One Hour (Overland)
Walk 1-1/2mi 2 miles 3 miles 4 miles
Hustle 3 miles 4 miles 6 miles 8 miles
Run — — — —
One Day (Overland)
Walk 12 mi 16 mi 24 mi 32 miles
Hustle — — — —
Run — — — —
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lordthom, just use reality as a guide and fudge it, unless you and your players really enjoy micromanaging. Pesonally, I think I'd go a little crazy if I had to figure out EXACTLY how long the min/level spells lasted when I GM, for instance. I try to use common sense and think about what the PCs have been doing. If I think it's taken more than the min/level or hour/level time period, I say, "Your spell has expired". I tend to give the players the benefit of the doubt, erring on them taking less time, and have never run into players who balked at this.
When your party is doing random things that don't take a defined amount of time, the DM has to use her judgment about how much time has passed. I don't think very many groups fastidiously track every six-second increment spent out of combat; that would be extremely arduous and would rarely make a difference. In games I DM, if a player has an effect that lasts for ten minutes, I'll usually just say that it's up when about ten minutes of action have occurred, in my judgment. I tend to err on the generous side so that players don't feel like they're getting shortchanged. I believe many groups use a fairly similar process.