Mecca Clock
On 11 August 2010, (1 Ramadan, AH 1431), the world's largest clock (at Mecca) started to operate. Some Muslims hoped that this would establish "Mecca Time" as the world's defining timezone. While officials had originally expressed the conviction that the clock might help to establish Mecca as prime meridian, it was set to Arabia Standard Time, a time zone based on Universal Coordinated Time and thus in coordination with Greenwich.
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