Time controls in tournaments

I have not played in a tournament yet on chess.com and was trying to figure out their time controls.  I see 1, 3, 10 days on the time controls.  What does that mean? And then it is confusing when I go to the particular tournament info and it talks about 3 hours or more for moves!  Is that right?  How do I get in a tournament with real time games of 30-60 minutes?  Can anybody help?

There are no Live Chess Tournaments in Chess.com.

I believe they are working on it, but the main problem of such a tournament is to find a good schedule to every game, as both players have to be online at the same time.

Thanks for the answer.  So how exactly does that work then?  Each player checks back every so often and then makes a move?  Sometimes days between moves?  Seems a little slow.

It is slow, but still much faster than traditional correspondence chess.

I played in this tournament: http://www.chess.com/tournament/under-1800-chess-league

The time control was 14 days per move. We started in April 3 and now there is only one game reamining. The game will not change the result, so I can consider myself the champion.

Actually most moves don't take the 14 days. We finished 89 games since April.

There was one game that I played entirely in one day.