Re: [Gnumed-devel] Handling of time hh:mm:ss in dob (date of birth)

[James Busser]

On 22-Aug-08, at 2:04 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > 3. Might the value 00:00:01 (in place of something like 07:00:00) be
> > more unusual and therefore hinting that the time of birth is not an
> > actual time?
> Yes, but, if we somewhere have an error in observing DST vs not  
> observing DST we may inadvertantly
> display the wrong *date* if the default time is within 1 hour of  
> midnight either way.

Thus better than 00:00:01 would be 01:00:01 or, to further be safe  
when patient care and a server may cross two adjacent time zones  
( (if the default is determined by the server vs client machine),  
then either way 02:00:01 may solve the concern?