What is the meaning of GMT?
Question and options
What is the meaning of GMT?
- Global Meridian Time
- Geographic Mean Time
- Greenwich Mean Time
- General Mean Time
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C - Greenwich Mean Time
GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, through which the Prime Meridian (0 degrees longitude) passes. Time zones were long expressed as hours ahead of or behind GMT; Indian Standard Time, for example, is GMT + 5:30. The other expansions are not the names of any time standard.
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