In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes:
>In practice the birth team has far more important things to do than >watch the clock. When my son was born at Mt. Diablo Hospital in California, I asked the staff how they dealt with midnight, DST changes and all that. They told me that they just wrote exactly what their wall-clock said and therefore often got it wrong during DST transitions, but once it was on the form, you were stuck with it for life. With respect to leap-days, they admitted that they were willing to fudge "up to half an hour" according to the parents wishes. And then came the kicker: One of the older nurses gravely pointed out that it *was* important to get it *exactly right*, otherwise the newborn couldn't rely on his horoscope. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
