Question

SSC Test Questions

For each degree of longitude there is a time difference of

Answer 1

360 degrees around the Earth are divided into 24 hours, as Earth rotates around itself in a day.
  So 24 hours time difference for 360 deg. of latitude.

   So  in one hour  260/24  = 15 degrees.

For a degree of latitude we have  60 minutes/ 15 = 4 minutes time difference.