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Ramadan in the Digital Age: From iPhone Apps to Web Porn Censorship

(Aug. 11) -- With the Muslim holy month of Ramadan under way, technology continues to play a bigger role in the observances of the holiday. Below, the latest ways that the digital era is helping facilitate Ramadan's ancient rituals, which call for abstaining from food, water and sexual activities from sunup until sundown...

Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT

(Aug. 11) -- For centuries, an astronomy observatory in Greenwich, London -- the namesake of Greenwich Mean Time -- has been the reference point for lines of longitude, ships' navigation on the world's seas and the time zones used today. But Saudi Arabia wants to change that. It's building what it calls the largest clock...

Background on greenwich mean time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a time system originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which later became adopted as a global time standard.

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