Friday, August 20, 2010

Muslims Challenge Time

The Royal Mecca Clock Tower is being built in Mecca, to which Muslims of the world can set their watches and have them run on Arab Standard Time.

Here is the article from the National Post: Times are a-changin'.

Here's an excerpt:
For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognized as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day.

But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is being challenged by a gargantuan new clock being built in Mecca, by which the world's 1.5 billion Muslims could soon be setting their watches.