Maybe time really is a social construct after all 🤷
If you’ve travelled to Indonesia or Thailand, you may have noticed that compared with Peninsular Malaysia, the sun rises about an hour earlier in these places.On that note, have you ever wondered why our time is like that?Back when Dr Mahathir was the fourth Prime Minister, he contributed a lot to the modernization of Malaysia, including proposing a Malaysian Standard Time of our own.
This was initially protested by Singapore, but the benefits were enormous and the two countries adopted the timezone similar to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The motion was unanimously supported in Parliament, even by opposition members at the time, and was made effective on 1 January, 1982. It’s only a 30 minute difference from Sabah Sarawak. Some people talk about health concerns, they say it’s better to leave work when the sun rises. Then all we need to ask is, change working hours instead of timezone.
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