why do we need the  standard meridian for india ?
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The standard meridian is important, especially these days, with cell phones, or navigation devices. \nIt's important to have a central starting off point to determine, your geographic position.\nThe Meridian, is important for time also, with the world wide commercial interests, you need to know the times in other times zones around the world.
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meridians or longitude lines run perpendicular to the equator but only in spherical geometry. In euclidian geometry, no lines would be perpendicular because there are no lines on the same plane as the equator, which is required for euclidean geometry.
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It's not just India. Central Australia has the same thing as well as many other places. Probably because those areas just didn't fit nicely in one or the other.
127882
Where are you, Say to me so that I can tell you.\nIf you are in Riyahd or Kuwait in The Arabic Gulf it will be the time their minus three to give you the answer. If you are in Cario or Alexandria in Egypt you will sbtract the time their by two. To know the number you will subtract the time your country are in by, you need to count how many longitude lines are there after The Prime Meridian which, runs along Greenwich City near London in U.K, Every line to east +1, and every line to west -1. So see on a map The Prime Meridian, then count the longitude lines till you reach your city or country. USE THE RULE EXPLIANED IN THIS ANSWER! \nN.B: READ THE WHOLE ANSWER TO KNOW THE RULE!!!
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The use of grid lines on maps (latitude and longitude) was first suggested by the Greek astronomer Hipparcus about 300 years before Christ. He was the first who devised a method for fixing the location of places on earth by observation of the the sun, moon and stars. He worked out the mathematics of spherical trigonometry, which allowed the results of these observations to be plotted on an earth which he knew already to be a sphere.\n\nLatitude can be found easily by measuring the height of the sun at noon. The measurement of longitude is not so simple as you need an accurate clock.
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This condition prevailed until 1884, when a system of standard time was adopted by the International Meridian Conference. Earth's surface was divided into 24 zones. The standard time of each zone is the mean astronomical time of one of 24 meridians, 15 degrees apart, beginning at the Greenwich, England, meridian and extending east and west around the globe to the International Date Line. (This system was actually put into use a year earlier by the railroad companies of the U.S. and Canada, who, until then, had to contend with some 100 conflicting local sun times observed in terminals across the land.)
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Yes. It's like sweet, sweet, mathematical unification of the world! Many parts of the world has already been using the Metric System, except for various countries like the US. The rules of the Metrics, is simplier than the Customs. (cm)Each unit of the measurement is in 10s, as inch, make it hard to make specific measures because each mark on the ruler is 0.0625! Adopting the Metric System!
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Greenwich mean time is always the same its the time in Greenwich England which is at the first meridian it is also referred to a Zulu time. so if you want to know what time it is in another country you would do something like mountian standard time -600. which is minus 6 hours from greenwich mean time
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I like the current system.\n\nFurther more the reason is that it makes it harder for other countries to copy or stuff like nuclear reactors.\n\n\nEngland by the way still uses miles as a measure of distance.
503210
It would be hard for India to match US's standard because of the existing India culture. Due to some religous belief which hinders India's development.
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There is no technical reason, other than consistancy. It was established by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy a couple thousand years ago. Probably because the land that was known when the first maps were made were in the North.
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Good question, and a tough one to answer, although I'm skeptical of the "all known criteria" piece of it.  I did browse much of the Wikipedia entry, and I also have a globe here to look at.\n\nTo rephrase this question, I guess we could say, (1) why is it not a continent, and (2) why is it a subcontinent?\n\nTraditionally, there are six or seven continents -- North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.  Sometimes Europe & Asia are combined into Eurasia, and some people like to combine the Americas.\n\nSize and geographic separation seem to be important ... the Central America connection is pretty narrow, as is the Suez connection.  On the other hand, the Ural mountains separating Europe from Asia is an ancient plate boundary (similar to the Appalachians, and much older than the Himalayas), and the Ural boundary certainly is not "narrow."  In that case, however, there are huge historical cultural differences between, for example, western Europe and East Asia.\n\nIn terms of size, Australia is the smallest continent, and Greenland is the largest island.  India is much closer in size to Greenland than to Australia.  (Also compare Madagascar, a large island drifting away from Africa.  The tectonic activity there is similar to India.)\n\nSo on the question of "why isn't it a continent," I'd say size matters a lot -- India isn't big enough -- and I'd say the closest boundary comparison is between the Himalaya barrier and the Urals.  West of the Urals is much, much larger than south of the Himalayas.\n\nCultural comparisons matter too, and by this measure, India could be considered a continent in its own right.  The Indian population is significantly different than the neighboring Oriental and Caucasian peoples.\n\nWhen you balance all this stuff, I guess you say Europe is its own continent -- it's big and culturally differentiable; but India is not a continent because it's not big enough.\n\nThe other part of the question is, why is it a subcontinent?  There, the Himalayas and, to a lesser extent, the Indian Plate, make a big difference.  Because of the mountains, India is geograpically separated from the rest of Asia.\n\nIt's also a large peninsula.  In this regard, we must compare with the Arabian Peninsula (which sits on the Arabian Plate), and maybe with Asia Minor, the boundary of which (by looking at a globe) may be said to extend from the Persion Gulf to the eastern end of the Black Sea, thus comprising a large area encompassing Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.  The other obvious large peninsula is Western Europe itself, bounded on the east by a line extending from the Black Sea to the Baltic.\n\nBut neither of those peninsulas have the Himalaya Mountain barrier.\n\nSo putting that altogether, I guess that's why India is a subcontinent and not a continent.  And since it seems to be the only generally recognized subcontinent in the world, that makes it pretty unique.
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Yes, permanent membership is preferred. Without that\nno vote. India is a Major power in the world now .\n\n\nCheck out the US stand on this at the link.\n\nPermanent seat for India, yes.
775995
WHERE is INDIA  first tell me that
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It's all to do with the angle of the earth.  It doesn't sit in an upright position, rather it reclines at and angle of 23 degrees.  It also rotates around the sun once a year which means that at times parts of the earth are pointing towards the sun and other parts are pointing away.\n\nThe further north or south you go the more pronounced the difference in daylight hours is.  For example, if you venture into the Arctic Circle (within 23 degrees of the pole) you can have 24 hour daylight during the summer months and 24 hours darkness during the winter months.\n\nBecause India is closer to the equator the difference in sunrise and sunset times is less variable than it is in Australia or the UK.  In the UK for example at this time of year it's daylight up until about 10PM but during the winter months it's dark by 4PM.
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From Wikipedia :\n"The North Star has been historically used by explorers to determine their latitude. At any point north of the equator the angle from the horizon to the North Star (its altitude) is the same as the latitude from which that angle was taken. For example, the angle to the North Star for a person at 30° latitude will be about 30°."
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India has a lot to do before it becomes the best, but we are not far behind either.\nUS is surely at the top.We are almost at par when it comes to Remote sensing stellites. Even the Communication satellites are quite good. We are behind in the areas of deep space exploration and launch vehicles, but considering the amount of budget spent we are pretty well off... I think we are just behind the japanese and chinese...