What does it means minutes mean in telling the longitude and latiitude, does it tell you the sunrise/set?

Answer 1

In addition to the divisions of time known as hours, minutes, and seconds, there are also divisions of angles known as degrees, minutes, and seconds. They have parallel meanings, in that a degree of angle is divided into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds.

There are parallels, but no functional connection. Minutes of latitude and longitude do not provide timing for celestial events directly.

For a better understanding, with pictures and diagrams, try an internet search on "latitude and longitude," and also on "right ascension and declination."

Answer 2

The "minutes" associated with longititude and latitude are given to locate a place more preciously and is fixed for a place.It does not change at all whereas the sunset timings and sunrise timings(here also "minutes" are given to specify a more correct time) change throughout the year for the same place.Then how can you expect a relationship between those two?

Answer 3

A minute is simply one sixtieth of a degree longitude or latitude. They are actually divided into seconds...before you ask, yes, there are sixty seconds in a minute here, too.

And no, they don't tell you the time of the sunrise or sunset. That varies with the time of year as well as with location.

Answer 4

latitude is for north-south postion location
longitude is for east-west position location.

lat and lon are measured in degrees. depending upon where on earth you are , it might be 60 miles from 20degrees N to 21 degrees north. the minutes and seconds are used to pinpoint the spot. mins and secs are smaller increments between degrees. in the example that i gave each minute would be 1 mile, each second would be 1/60th of a mile.

using minutes and seconds locations can be placed within a few feet.

it has nothing to do with time of sunrise or sunset

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a simple way to describe it is

a degree of latitude = miles
a minute = feet
a second = inches

( not literally, but i hope you understand)