[Discuss] How Daylight Saving Time Messes With Hospitals

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 21:20:28 EST 2018


On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 20:52:41 -0500
Daniel Barrett <dbarrett at blazemonger.com> wrote:

> I'm all for precision in hospital record keeping in general, but in
> this specific example (birth time off by 1 hour), is there any
> compelling need to know the precise time of someone's birth? I can't
> think of a single time in five decades that I've been asked for it,
> except maybe by a particularly anal astrologer.

Don't get hung up on the specific example. It's an example. Substitute
the times that medications are administered if it makes the example
more relevant to you. It's the same problem: when did something happen.

-- 
Rich Pieri



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