Why 82 95 east has been selected as the standard meridian?
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The Earth has been divided into 24 time zones of one hour each. Each of these zones covers 15 degrees of longitude.
As the local time differs by 4 minutes at every longitude, it would create a lot of confusion regarding time for any country as a whole which may stretch across several longitudes.
Therefore each country selects a central meridian and the local time of this meridian is the standard time of that country.
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