Personally, I prefer Tulsa Time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7359258.stm Muslim call to adopt Mecca time Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth. Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice. One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca's was in perfect alignment to magnetic north. He said the English had imposed GMT on the rest of the world by force when Britain was a big colonial power, and it was about time that changed. Mecca watch A prominent cleric, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, said modern science had at last provided evidence that Mecca was the true centre of the Earth; proof, he said, of the greatness of the Muslim "qibla" - the Arabic word for the direction Muslims turn to when they pray. The meeting also reviewed what has been described as a Mecca watch, the brainchild of a French Muslim. The watch is said to rotate anti-clockwise and is supposed to help Muslims determine the direction of Mecca from any point on Earth. The meeting in Qatar is part of a popular trend in some Muslim societies of seeking to find Koranic precedents for modern science. It is called "Ijaz al-Koran", which roughly translates as the "miraculous nature of the holy text". The underlying belief is that scientific truths were also revealed in the Muslim holy book, and it is the work of scholars to unearth and publicise the textual evidence. But the movement is not without its critics, who say that the notion that modern science was revealed in the Koran confuses spiritual truth, which is constant, and empirical truth, which depends on the state of science at any given point in time.
I don't know about the rest of it....but that Mecca watch sounds pretty cool. Just the idea of a clock....running counterclockwise...is kind of groovy. Was this idea first floated on 4/20? What time is it??? It's Mecca Time! Time to Mecca sandwich. TIme to Mecca nother silly post on clutchfans.
Hey if they want to use Mecca time, more power to them. If they think Mecca is the center of universe or earth, as long as they don't come to bother me, more power to them.
I thought the true center of Earth is the core. Is this guy trying to imply that Saudi City is in there? If that's what muslim "scientists" think, I'm going to question their education system in the Middle East. Anyway, they can use whatever time they want. But good luck trying to get the rest of the world to buy into this.
