Any tolerance for this idea?

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) could be replaced by "Mecca Time," if a group of Muslim leaders get their way.

At the conference, "Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice," Muslim scientists and clerics called for the change, arguing that the holy city in Saudi Arabia is the center of the Earth and should be the reference point for world time, not Greenwich, England, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.

One geologist at the Qatar conference said Mecca's longitude is perfectly aligned with magnetic north and should therefore replace the English city, which has been measuring time zones since 1884, the BBC reports.

Attendees of the conference also reviewed the "Mecca Watch," an invention by a French Muslim which reportedly rotates counter-clockwise and displays Mecca's direction from any point in the world, the BBC said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352011,00.html

Now that is just what I need, ....... a "Mecca Watch".

And Steph, ...... I'll buy you one of them just as soon as I find a supplier.



ps: maybe the Democrats will get the "manufacturing rights" and thus create part of those "high paying jobs" they are promising.

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I don't particularly care what Islamic countries set their clocks by. Do you?

I don't see any sense in changing it now.

BTW, the original Prime Meridian was in Paris (although Flanders also claims that right with the Antwerp Meridian)

But thanks to John Harrison’s successful invention in 1761 and Britain’s dominance on the seas, Greenwich was voted the Prime Meridian in 1884. It would have been an awful task to convert 120+ years worth of Navigational Charts and Maps ……. just to appease the French.

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