Name: Political and Administrative Divisions of India
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 8 min 33 s
Description: India is a vast country, with 28 states and 8 Union Territories. Let's see how this land is divided politically and administratively.

Question

Distinguish between IST and GMT.

Accepted Answer

Indian Standard Time/IST

The local time along the Standard Meridian ( $82 ° 30'$ E) which serves as the Standard Time for the whole of India is called Indian Standard Time or IST.

It is $5$ hours $30$ minutes ahead of Greenwich Time.

As the local time differs from place to place it causes great inconvenience for the country as a whole. Thus, in a particular country, the local time of a particular or rather a central place is adopted as the uniform time for the whole country. It is called the Standard Time of that country or that area.

Greenwich Mean time / GMT

GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time. GMT can be defined as the Mean Solar Time at Greenwich London’s Royal Observatory.

GMT is measured at the Earth’s meridian is a longitude line of zero degrees. These lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole, i.e. going through London’s Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

The standard meridian provides for the exact difference of $5$ hours and $30$ minutes between the GMT and IST.

Distinguish between IST and GMT.

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