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Quote:(Aug. 11) -- For centuries, an astronomy observatory in Greenwich, London -- the namesake of Greenwich Mean Time -- has been the reference point for lines of longitude, ships' navigation on the world's seas and the time zones used today.
But Saudi Arabia wants to change that. It's building what it calls the largest clock in the world, atop the second-largest skyscraper in the world, in the Islamic holy city of Mecca -- in hopes of replacing GMT with "Mecca Time." For more, read here. |
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And this from people who follow a "prophet" who instituted a lunar calendar without any provision for keeping months in their solar seasons. Muhammad, in his ignorance and arrogance, outlawed the intercalary month used by every lunar-calendar based civilization since the dawn of time. The lunar year is so far out of sync with the solar (354 days vs. 365.25), you need to add an extra month about seven years out of every nineteen to keep the seasons in line. The ancient Israelites knew this. The Babylonians knew this. But Allah's prophet couldn't quite grasp the concept. So now all you can say about the first day of Ramadan is that it falls sometime between Miller time and Howdy Doody time. And now these people want us to set our watches by their standard? Sure, why not?
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This might sound like a Freudian question, but what does it matter how big the clock has to be? Also, I believe time zones moved from Jerusalem to Rome and then finally to the universal Greenwich time, not because of religion but when England started mapping the globe they needed a zero starting point (or something like that). Greenwich became "the" point of reference not just for time but also longitude and latitude.
I don't see any reason whatsoever to change GMT. The Saudis are basing their new time zone strictly on religious grounds and not science. There's nothing to stop them into going forward except running the risks of flying planes into each other and colliding ships at sea.
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