Random?

So, my grad student and I just had a conversation about Daylight Saving Time. I noticed that here, the sun sets about 7:30 PM, whereas back home in Michigan, it sets at about 8:30 or 9...

So I ask her if she turns her clock forward in the spring and back in the fall, and she just looks at me in half disbelief and half amusement and is like, No, why would I do that?

We then had a conversation about Benjamin Franklin and how he came up with the idea of DST and what its purpose was, and how there's actually different time zones in the U.S. (All of China is under Beijing time, even though the sun sets at different times in different places.)

I love cultural exchange :)