In the US, back in the 1970s nurses lobbied for recording the time
accurately supposedly because of the rising interest in astrology.
However my bet is the hospital lawyers looked at it and saw possible
legal consequences if the time wasn't recorded accurately so made it a
policy. Hence my great nieces and nephews have accurate to the minute
birth times not ones that say 7:30 PM or 2 AM.
It's been said that back in the 40's and 50's in the smokin' old US the
doctor would deliver a child take a smoke break and filled out the birth
certificate, glanced at the clock on the wall and entered that time. So
births may be off in those cases by several minutes.
Of course in India a lot of older folks don't even know what year they
were born.
On 11/03/2013 06:03 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hospitals only record the generic TOB (i.e. when the attending
nurses look to the clock). They don't have astrological thinking, so
they look only for the general time (live birth was about 10:28 am).
The one degree per six minutes effect doesn't doesn't exist for them
---In [email protected], <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote:
This morning, a weird dream woke me up at a little before 2am, and my
first thought was that it would be cool to watch my digital
radio-controlled clock shift back to standard time. But, at the top of
the hour, the clock stayed on 2am, and I realized that I had woken up
during the second 1am hour. And, it got me wondering how astrology
deals with the one day of the year in DST areas where there are two
periods of 1:00am to 1:59am. I guess if an astrologer has to deal with
a 1am hour "fall back" morning birth time that doesn't specify DST or
standard time, he'll have to run both charts and see which one is the
better fit. I'd like to assume that hospitals would make a point of
taking note of which 1am hour, but I know from my own birth
certificate that hospitals aren't always focused on recording accurate
birth time.
