Daylight saving
Bangladesh has started daylight savings! Congratulations, though the benefit to be achieved has become controversial already! However, as many have raised concern regarding the possible chaos in light of the change, I believe, the government should have implemented it on the 18th June, Thursday midnight instead of 19th June Midnight.
Generally, in the rest of the world it is done on a Saturday night, so that the impact of change in terms of confusion and chaos is minimal due to the following day being a Sunday, a holiday. People get time to get adjusted and used to the new timing. As such, in Bangladesh, it should have been done on Thursday midnight, so that people would get time on Friday to absorb the change. Friday being public holiday would cause least of confusion except a bit in railway or bus timing but major things like schools, offices and important meetings etc, would not have been affected.
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