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   ocr: The prime meridian is the most important line of longitude. It runs through Greenwich, London U (the source of the world time standard - Greenwich D Mean Time). Running almost continuously with the - prime meridian, on the opposite side of the globe, is the International Date Line. These two meridians divide the earth into two halves - effectively the eastern and western hemispheres.