explain the meaning of the Greenwich mean time.
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Greenwich is a place in UK. Its time is considered at world level and it is used to calculate the time of other countries by applicable aspects. For example India's time using GMT can be calculated as GMT+5:30. It means that India's te is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead GMT. So, if there is 12 noon in Greenwich then it will be 5:30 pm in India.
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The time measured on the Earth's zero grade longitude or meridian is the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
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- The time measured on the Earth's zero grade longitude or meridian is the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
- This stretches across the old Royal Observatory at the Greenwich suburb in London from the North Pole to the South Pole.
- Since 1884, this line is known as the Meridian Greenwich, which measures all terrestrial longitudes and calculates the time zones in the world from here.
- In general, if you are in an East Greenwich country, your local time will be ahead of GMT (e.g. GMT +8 hours local time).
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