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What is the abbreviation for central time zone?

The normal abbreviation for East Coast time is EST (Eastern Standard Time).


What is the purpose of time-zone?

The Greenwich Meridian, also known as the prime meridian or International Meridian, is the "starting point" for dividing the Earth's surface into time zones. Each time zone is 15 degrees of longitude wide (with local variations) and the local time is one hour earlier than the zone immediately to the east on the map


What is the central meridian for the irregular time zone that includes India?

That would be 5.5 times 15°, putting it at 82.5° east longitude.


What is the central meridian for pacific standard time?

The Pacific Standard Time Zone should be centered around 120° west longitude.


What is time warp zone?

It is definitley not a scientific concept, let alone a time zone like the Prime Meridian or the International Date Line.


Why do you have timezone?

The Greenwich Meridian, also known as the prime meridian or International Meridian, is the "starting point" for dividing the Earth's surface into time zones. Each time zone is 15 degrees of longitude wide (with local variations) and the local time is one hour earlier than the zone immediately to the east on the map.


What is the central meridian for Eastern standard time?

The central meridian for Eastern Standard Time (EST) is 75 degrees west longitude. This meridian serves as the reference point for the time zone, which is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-5).


What is the full of a.m in 10a.m?

The full meaning of a.m. in 10 a.m. is "ante meridian," which translates to "before the meridian." It is the part of the day when the sun has not yet reached the meridian in a particular time zone.


How are the prime meridian and the equator alike and different?

The prime meridian goes east to south, as the equator runs east to west. The prime meridian is used as 12:00AM on a time zone map


How do you calculate from GMT?

If you are to the west of the Greenwich Meridian (as is the US, for example) You subtract an hour for each time zone. Eastern Standard Time in the US is 5 hours behind GMT. Be sure to adjust for daylight saving time. GMT is always standard time. If you are to the east of the Greenwich Meridian, you add an hour for each time zone.


What line of longitude would be at the center of the time zone containing the prime meridian?

That would be zero degrees longitude.


What is the difference between a prime meridian and a meridian?

The time meridian is each standard time zone roughly centered on a line of longitude exactly divisible by 15 degrees and the prime meridian is the starting point for the standard time zones an arbitrary longitude line.