Question

Make a detailed study of finding the time with the help of longitude. give one practical example.

(ICSE) Class IX
total Geography
2 lesson- Geographic grid latitude and longitude

Answer 1

There is a time lag of 4 minutes between the two consecutive longitudes. For example - there lie almost 30 longitudes between the eastern most and western most longitudes. Hence this gives us,
(4*30) =120 minutes =2 hrs