Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.
But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time 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.
The clock will run on Arabia Standard Time which is three hours ahead of GMT.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...Greenwich.html
Dan 7:25 ... and think to change times and laws:
But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time 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.
The clock will run on Arabia Standard Time which is three hours ahead of GMT.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...Greenwich.html
Dan 7:25 ... and think to change times and laws:
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