Madras Time
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madras-time-191-17909842
title:
Madras Time
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Madras Time was a time zone established in 1802 by John Goldingham, the first official astronomer of the British East India Company in British India when he determined the longitude of Madras as 5 hours, 21 minutes and 14 seconds ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. It has been described as 8 minutes and 46 seconds from UTC+05:30 and 32 minutes and 6 seconds behind Calcutta Time which puts it at (UTC+05:21:14). Before India's independence, it was the closest precursor to Indian Standard Time which is d
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Former time zone in British India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Time
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2023-10-25T15:30:01Z
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