Re: [Gnumed-devel] Date of birth default times all seem to be 11:11

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-07-17, at 1:58 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

>> Even though it is possible to make *this* column date-only (no time zone),
>> I am worried a bug will still bite us on other datetimes!
> 
> No, those can shift and everything's fine.
> 
> It's only the DOB because that's often rather than not from
> a non-local time zone while most other datetime are from the
> local timezone and thus will display just fine no matter how
> the computer shifts them internally.

My whole premise about "instant in time" is defeated as I realize that never in 
my life did I ask a patient to qualify what was their geolocation time zone at 
the moment of their birth. While potentially available, I cannot see value to 
reliably acquire it ! :-)

-- Jim