On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 17:12:47 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Should be called "Why Doctors Should Hate Local Time." > Particularly for health care centers whose networks span time zones. This could be only a few years old; how could the designers be so ignorant about a long-solved problem?
The DB should contain GMT; the display and input routines should apply the offset. And I'm irritated by quoted email timestamps that show some local time but don't indicate the offset. Yours above is good; mine below is bad. Wouldn't it be nice to have (HTML 5.1) markup such as: <GMT>2018-11-07 17:12:47</GMT> ... and viewing software that rendered that correctly in local time? >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:26 PM > >From: >https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN