On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:28:01PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > What is the technical reason that makes you wonder ?
>
> Because it would make doing the queries simpler.
> If you aren't collecting the data, it doesn't make sense to deal with the
> extra headaches involved with pretending you know what time of day someone
> was born.
Oh, I see. When I said that users don't enter the hour and
minute that was targetted at search time. They do enter the
time part when entering a new patient, of course.
So, it's surely collected. It's just not used for searching.
Karsten
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