Modern vs Traditional Time
10/25/15 It had been few weeks I lived at Groningen, city at the northern part of the Netherlands. That was the place where I took my master degree. It was a very cold morning before dawn, and I waited the bus to the Mosque for performing congregation prayer. The bus was always punctual so I made sure that I was ready at the bus stop five minutes before the time. I waited for five minutes, it did not show up. The five turned to ten, then fifteen, still the bus did not come. I decided to go back to my apartment and missed that day prayer. After few minutes I recognized the difference between the time in my watch and my desktop computer. My desktop showed one hour earlier than my watch. That day was the time when Europe moved back the clock to one time earlier. The daylight saving time ended. As someone who came from tropical region, daylight saving time seems weird. Why should we arbitrarily switch back or forth the time? Benjamin Franklin came u