It seems that in Islam every day is April Fools Day, and of course it's the Muslims who are the fools. Get this:

Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

A prominent cleric, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, said modern science had at last provided evidence that Mecca was the true centre of the Earth; proof, he said, of the greatness of the Muslim "qibla" - the Arabic word for the direction Muslims turn to when they pray.

Read the rest of the article, then join with me in appreciation of the advanced state of Muslim science:

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Footnote:
Muslims, here's how it works:

• When the Greeks were a major world power, they gave names to the constellations, many of which we still use today.
• When the Muslim world was the centre of scientific knowledge (a long time ago), Muslims gave names to many of the stars.
• When Britain was the major maritime nation of the world, and an accurate measure of longitude was required for navigation, accurate time was crucial, so a timing point was needed by which all clocks could be synchronised. Time along a certain line of longitude would be 00:00, while 15 degrees west it would be an hour earlier, 15 degrees east an hour later. Greenwich was chosen purely because The Royal Observatory was (and is) located there. Like the Greeks with the constellation, like the Muslims with many star names, Britain simply named it first. Deal with it.

If science has 'provided evidence that Mecca was the true centre of the Earth' then it's news to me. And probably news to science. Or both. Or bollocks.