History, asked by bhaveshmadhuvarsu, 8 months ago

11. What is IST ? Why have we taken one time zone for whole India?

Answers

Answered by riya5395
12

Answer:

Explanation: What's unusual is that there is only one time zone across the whole of India. The time zone is calculated according to the longitude of 82.5° E. at Shankargarh Fort in Mirzapur (in the Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh), which was picked as the central meridian for India.

Answered by Oniviah2020gmailcom
10

Answer:

Indian Standard Time.

We had taken one time zone for whole India

to make best used of daylight in Eastern India ,where the sun rises and sets much earlier than the west

Similar questions