Question

what is standard meridian?What is its significance?

Answer 1

every place on earth has its local time and at every 1 degree the change is of 4 minutes. ... So The significance of Standard meridian is to manage time difference in the country.

Answer 2

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Standard meridian is an imaginary line which passes through Mirzapur ,Uttar Pradesh .It lies almost at 82.30'E.

It determines the time over the India. As there is a time lag of 2 hours between estern and western point of India. So for convenience along time standard meridian is chosen for the standard time.

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