what is meant by standard meridian ? why do we need it .explain?
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it is the common meridian for the whole world.
it is common as it is considered as 0°
it is the Greenwich median time, which is in the Greenwich meridian
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The meridian used for reckoning standard time; throughout most of the world the standard meridians are those whose longitudes are exactly divisible by 15°.
We need a standard meridian for India because there is a time lag of about 2 hours between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh. To avoid confusion of time in different states , India adopted a standard meridian which is 82 degrees 30 E and it passes through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh.
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