An innocuous tweet from a Malaysian minister last week has reignited a long-running debate about whether the Southeast Asian country is in the right time zone. In 1982, Peninsular Malaysia, the western part of the country, moved its clocks forward by 30 minutes to align its time zone with the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo. The change, ordered by then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, was presented as a nation-building and modernizing move that would put the whole country on a single time. But it also means that in Peninsular Malaysia the sun usually rises at around 7 a.m., roughly an hour later than in East Malaysia.
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