Way back in 2003 we joked about the medical consequences of time. file:///usr/local/www/sla/leapsecs/reductio.html
Here we see an interesting quote http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/05/medical-devices "It is a slew of malpractice suits waiting to happen." Note also the remarks about what daylight time does to hospital ops. and, of course, there is already the de rigueur flame war discussing it http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/23/1558257/know-what-time-it-is-your-medical-device-doesnt In my mother's hospital room the wall clock was off. I pulled it down and saw the WWVB timezone buttons. I pushed them in a way that should have triggered the clock to reset to WWVB, but nothing happened. A bit of digging around on the net revealed that model of clock was made by some Chinese company which did make WWVB synchronized clocks. They also made just plain quartz clocks without radios and sold them with the same plastic chassis as their radio clocks. I reset the clock manually, and it was well. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
