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Show Turkish Time. A letter writer in Constantinople says: "One of the perplexing tilings is the computation of time. Tiie Turks reckon from the time of the flight o the prophet from Mecca, and it takes 537 Turkish years to make 521 of our years. At sunset of each day watches and clocks ore set to mark 12 o'clock, and until the twelfth hour after sunset the hands on the dial indicate the time that has elapsed since sunset. After that hour they indicate the number of hours that will intervene before suuset ci the next day plus or minus the daily variation in the length of days." |