Re: [Gnumed-devel] re timezones

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > 2003/24/08 13:45   Kirk involved in traffic accident, oversaw
> >                    elderly pedestrian at Fourth Street, Melbourne
> >
> > Now, where's the problem ? Well, 13:45 is *my* CEST local
> > time. However, the accident happened some 12 hours earlier, at
> > 1:45am AU local time ! The time displayed in my client will
> > never hint me into thinking of checking night vision on Kirk. He
> > may have selective blindness/tunnel vision at night.

> I'm writing this at the timestamp time but I would have to mark the event as 
> happening at an earlier time
> 
> eg injured ankle (R) Tuesday (3/7 ago)
> wher i mean that the right ankle was injured three days earlier, I noted 
> Tuesday because that comes from the exact history given to me, then I 
> calculate the time gap.
> 
> So Captain Kirk rammed his space ship into a pedestrian at 0045 hrs Melbourne 
> time because he was drunk or his cataracts messup his night vision - but the 
> computer doesn't timestamp this at the time of incident; it timestamps it 
> when I make the note about it. That could be next day or next week or next 
> month.

Doh. I knew I needed a knockup by another clinician. Thanks.

Karsten
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