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Could be worse. Mecca has the world's biggest clock dial.[1] Originally, it was to be set to solar time at Mecca, but that was just too confusing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_Towers

I like to think .beats might've caught on, if they were UTC-based instead of UTC+1, because Swatch is headquartered in Switzerland, and I think that little offset made it obviously tongue-in-cheek.

Since ICQ shut down, I have stayed in the right mood by using the uh-oh sound as my phone message alert for high-priority people.

Well that took me back.

For some reason no friends or family took me seriously when I brought it up at the time.