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What will be the time in Japan

located at 135º E longitude, when it
is 12 Noon in India at 75°E
longitude.
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Answer:

14:08

Explanation:Note an important fact from Hank Wisniewski’s answer, which some misguided soul downvoted: the result is not what your teacher presumably wanted. I suspect he wanted you to calculate based on the longitudes (thus the multiples of 15°), and presumably he wanted you to say 16:00.

As Hank says, the longitudes are irrelevant. The Indian time zone (IST) has an offset from UTC of 5½ hours. Japan (JST) has an offset of 9 hours. Neither observe DST. So any part of Japan is always 3½ hours ahead of India, and the correct answer is 15:30.

India can also be at 97° E, and Japan can also be at 129° E. That makes no difference to the time in either place, but the simplistic longitude calculation would give you a time of 14:08 in this case

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