Mekkah Mean Time Slide GMT As the Center for World Time

Mekkah Mean Time. The Government of Saudi Arabia is completing an ambitious project to shift the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the center of world time. A giant clock tower that is claimed to five times larger than Big Ben in London is being built in the city of Mecca.

Since a century ago, Greenwich was used as a reference as a starting point for the start of a day in the world. Calculation of time all countries refer to the region located in the southeast of London.

Now, the challenge arises from Mecca. A giant clock tower located at the top of the temple towers of the Abraj Al-gallant stand and needles already started ticking clock since Thursday (12/08/2010).

Not only the tower, the complex is also filled with hotels, shopping malls and the magnificent conference center. The manufacturer claims the building is five times larger than the tower of Big Ben in London and making it the second tallest building in the world after the Burj tower in Dubai's Khalifa.

This cube-shaped clock tower four sides. Diameter clock reaches 40 meters, beating the previous largest hours into the roof Cevahir Mall in Turkey with a diameter of 35 meters.

The time clock is used by Arabian Standard Time, three hours earlier than GMT. Hope the government of Saudi Arabia about the tower is not just as a timepiece. However, there is a strong ambition to make Makkah as the center of the world, replaces Greenwich.

"Making Mecca time to replace Greenwich Mean Time. This is our final goal," said Mohammed al-Arkubi, one hotel manager at the complex, as reported by the Telegraph.

Since 125 years ago, the international community has agreed that the area used Greenwich as the initial size of the world since passed the point of time zero. Determination of this point it is important to facilitate measurement of time travel and inter-state communication.

However, for Saudi Arabia, Mecca is considered more appropriate as the epicenter of the world. The holy city is claimed by Muslims as a region without magnetic force by Egyptian investigators as Abdel-Baset Al-Sayyed.

"That's why when someone travels to Mecca or lives there, they live longer and healthier because her life is much less influenced by gravity," explained al-Sayyed. Mekkah Mean Time