I was surprised to read about this from Wikipedia.

The rules is:-

From 1935 to 1941,  from 14th September to 14th December, there was a day light saving in North Borneo (Sabah and Sarawak) where our grandparents had to adjust their clocks and watches 20 minutes faster than the rest of the time in a year.

I am talking about the daylight saving only and there were several occurrences of changing of time in both East and West Malaysia which made me surprised as well.  You can read about them here.  You can also get the map of the world on which countries had applied DST (Daylight Saving Time), which countries never used it at all, and which countries is still using it currently here.  I have also learned that our Malaysian Standard Time is monitored by SIRIM.

Now we have a standard Malaysia time which is +0800 GMT.  I cannot imagine West Malaysia Melaya (based on KL local mean time) was + 6hr 46m 48s GMT until the year of 1905 and East Malaysia North Borneo (based on Kuching local mean time) had + 7hr 21m 20s GMT until Mar 1926.  There were not standardized at all, and might have caused a lot of problems.

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This is the third time I talked about the earliest sunrise in Kuching since I started this blog.  You can read my posts about it in 2007 and 2008.  Yes, now is the season of earliest sunrise in a year (my favorite season).  In 1935 - 1941 it was even earlier by 20 minutes. :o

I wake up earlier automagically in this season.  Just now I woke up at 5:45am and I saw the sky in dark blue.  I like it.