continuous on $[0,\infty)$ and uniformly continuous on $[a, \infty )$ for some $a\in \mathbb R^+$ , to show uniform continuity on $[0, \infty)$

Question

Let $f:[0, \infty) \to \mathbb R$ be a continuous function which is uniformly continuous on $[a, \infty )$ for some $a\in \mathbb R^+$ , then how to show that $f:[0, \infty) \to \mathbb R$ is uniformly continuous ? Please help

Answer 1

Hint: $f$ is uniformly continuous in $[0,a+1]$ because is a compact set.