One time zone to rule them all...
Posted on 08/10/2010 1:42:47 PM PDT by Dallas59
Muslims around the world could be setting their watches to a new time soon when the world's largest clock begins ticking atop a soaring skyscraper in Islam's holiest city of Mecca.
Saudi Arabia hopes the four faces of the new clock, which will loom over Mecca's Grand Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median.
The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan on or about August 12, according to the Saudi state news agency SPA.
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Two or three Tridents: MIRV tests.
I’m getting truly sick of these clowns...
a blaring voice sez, good evening boys and girls its pedophile babarian time.
I am glad it is going to a very "Tall" building. They should have built two of them.
The clock will run backwards until it reaches the 12th century when it will once again be correct.
LOL!
One time zone to rule them all...
"Suntory Time!"
You didn’t include the mushroom cloud. Phooey.
For this crowd time has run out.
Shortly Hussein will decree that the US is going on “Sharia” time since he already hates anything based in the UK. Either that or a Judge will rule that we must use Sharia time with all muslim’s or activities they are involved in.
Make that the 7th century.
LOL. Sort of...
The biggest clock in the world with a 45-meter diameter face is seen under construction near the Grand Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. The Arabian nation which hosts the Muslim world's key holiest sights hopes the four faces of the new clock from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median. (AFP/File/Hassan Batel)
So, as a result, on top of the rest of their ignorance, the Muslims will never know what time it really is.
I lost the one I used to have. I can’t find a transparent one. I can find non-transparent, but that doesn’t work. If you have one, send me a link.
The Mecca Clock Royal Tower hotel is seen under construction topped by the world's biggest clockface as Muslims sit in the Grand Mosque in the Saudi city of Mecca. The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan in early August 12, according to the nation's state news agency. (AFP/File/Hassan Batel)
So on top of everything else, it is hideous and a design disaster.
“At a conference in Doha in 2008, Muslim clerics and scholars presented “scientific” arguments that Mecca time is the true global meridian. They said that Mecca is the centre of the world and that the Greenwich standard was imposed by the west in 1884.”
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