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

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-07-17, at 9:48 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> Oh, you likely did, but you didn't notice you did.
> 
> Did you ever say "So, you were born in <foreign country> ?"
> to a patient ?
> 
> Population based genetic risk, early-infection/
> late-manifestation (Tbc, HIV), early childhood chronic food
> poisoning (heavy metals in drinking water, lots of
> contaminated fish), and vaccination status relevance come to
> mind.

The country is relevant.

I also suppose that, for many countries, once you established the country you 
did also establish the time zone!

However witness Canada and any other country that is wide in the east-west 
plane, relative to where time zone boundaries fall:

        
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/inms/time-services/time-zones.html

-- Jim