Mecca Time is a time standard that uses the line of longitude that goes through Mecca, Saudi Arabia (39°49′34″ E of the Greenwich Meridian) as its Prime Meridian. Its proposed use as a global standard is often justified by the claim that the city is the true center of the Earth and thus should become the basis of the world's timezones.A clock based on this meridian would be at approximately UTC+02:39:18.2.
40th meridian eastThe proposal was made by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and other Muslim clerics meeting in Doha, Qatar on April 21, 2008 for a conference titled "Mecca: the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice."
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