Saudis Hope Giant Clock Will Set 'Mecca Time' (It's Mecca Time)

Yahoo News ^ | 8/10/2010 | Yahoo News

[Dallas59]

Muslims around the world could be setting their watches to a new time soon when the world's largest clock begins ticking atop a soaring skyscraper in Islam's holiest city of Mecca.

Saudi Arabia hopes the four faces of the new clock, which will loom over Mecca's Grand Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median.

The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan on or about August 12, according to the Saudi state news agency SPA.

[DManA]

Hey Saudi’s - it’s later than you think.

[livius]

Soon to be installed at Ground Zero, no doubt.

Our little Muslim brethren are feeling a bit cocky, aren’t they? Gee, I wonder why.

[nascarnation]

Hopefully Baraq can be there to bow at the grand opening.

[Dallas59]

NASA Agrees that time is coming from Mecca......

[DManA]

Personally, I prefer liv’n on Tulsa time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GlDufZrCPE

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Dallas59]

I want a Mohamed watch!

[martin_fierro]

It's Bob Ross Time, foo'.

[steveo]

Morons have their own rules for everything else so why not their own time standard.

"At the sound of the blast, the time will be the ninth century"

[haywoodwebb]

That'll be one sweet target!

[Andrea19]

My thoughts on the black stone...stop hammer time!

[NurdlyPeon]

Is it going to run counter-clockwise?

[GraceG]

Mecca Mean (Mean as in Evil) Time.

[Troublemaker]

Stop...Mecca Time.

[BenLurkin]

[Patrick1]

Bloomberg will put one in NYC and Obama can put one up in DC.

[Gaffer]

The Hajj.......Ground Zero of the rest of the new millenia....

[Sybeck1]

Almost Miller time here........

[NormsRevenge]

Tick Tick Tick Tick .. Oh yeah!!

[benewton]

Two or three Tridents: MIRV tests.

I’m getting truly sick of these clowns...

[aeonspromise]

a blaring voice sez, good evening boys and girls its pedophile babarian time.

[Red_Devil 232]

Will the clock be stuck in time? Like some 1400 years ago like everything else that has to do with this cult!

I am glad it is going to a very "Tall" building. They should have built two of them.

[Don Corleone]

The clock will run backwards until it reaches the 12th century when it will once again be correct.

[James C. Bennett]

LOL!

[Jack of all Trades]

Here's a picture

One time zone to rule them all...

[dfwgator]

"Suntory Time!"

[La Lydia]

You didn’t include the mushroom cloud. Phooey.

[RickB444]

For this crowd time has run out.

[Oldexpat]

Shortly Hussein will decree that the US is going on “Sharia” time since he already hates anything based in the UK. Either that or a Judge will rule that we must use Sharia time with all muslim’s or activities they are involved in.

[livius]

Make that the 7th century.

[livius]

One time zone to rule them all.

LOL. Sort of...

[NormsRevenge]

The biggest clock in the world with a 45-meter diameter face is seen under construction near the Grand Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. The Arabian nation which hosts the Muslim world's key holiest sights hopes the four faces of the new clock from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median. (AFP/File/Hassan Batel)

[La Lydia]

So, as a result, on top of the rest of their ignorance, the Muslims will never know what time it really is.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I lost the one I used to have. I can’t find a transparent one. I can find non-transparent, but that doesn’t work. If you have one, send me a link.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Oh the horror, setting their watches on their wrist of the unclean hand in time with mecca!

[ColdOne]

Mecca's Grand Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building Which is the first tallest? Which would have been the tallest 9-10-01??????

[NormsRevenge]

The Mecca Clock Royal Tower hotel is seen under construction topped by the world's biggest clockface as Muslims sit in the Grand Mosque in the Saudi city of Mecca. The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan in early August 12, according to the nation's state news agency. (AFP/File/Hassan Batel)

[La Lydia]

So on top of everything else, it is hideous and a design disaster.

[mainsail that]

“At a conference in Doha in 2008, Muslim clerics and scholars presented “scientific” arguments that Mecca time is the true global meridian. They said that Mecca is the centre of the world and that the Greenwich standard was imposed by the west in 1884.”

:)

[massgopguy]

The Chinese believe that Tienamin Square is the center of the universe and they have real nukes. Why don’t they demand that they say get to say what time it is?

[Wurlitzer]

Target rich environment.

[laker_dad]

Does anyone really know what time it is?

Does anyone really care? /CTA

[tbpiper]

The clock is targeted....

It is now.

[NormsRevenge]

Graphic shows a new 591 metre tall sky-scraper under construction in the city of Mecca. Muslims around the world could be setting their watches to a new time soon when the world's largest clock begins ticking atop a soaring skyscraper in Islam's holiest city. (AFP/Graphic)

[Artemis Webb]

Concept art:

[NormsRevenge]

lol.. It’d fit right in on the Strip in Vegas except they don’t allow no clocks there.. :-)

[Gay State Conservative]

Cool.I've already repositioned all my toilets to face “mecker” and now,with this new clock,I'll know exactly when I should make each of my five “visits” a day.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I doubt that they are going to do anything more sophisticated than install a GPS receiver and set their clocks at some constant offset from UTC, that offset being determined by the longitude of Mecca furnished by their GPS receiver. If the GPS constellation ever goes down, they would have no way of knowing what time it is.

[Gritty]

"Mecca Time"...

Isn't that when civilization stopped in that part of the world, 632 A.D.?