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to: Geo.
from: Mike N.
date: 2007-03-17 13:24:36
subject: Re: The DST fiasco

From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:25:08 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>I mean bfd so a computer
>is off by an hour until someone changes the clock. what like we've never had
>that happen before?

  Just heard the story from someone who works at a local hospital - what a
disaster; half the schedules were 1 hour off.    And seemingly randomly,
schedules after the old time change date were off as well.   The ones who
made out best were the ones who printed out department schedules before the
time change.     The reason this is such a big deal is that it's so tricky
to schedule meetings among doctors, nurses, and staff; let alone try to
guess which hour is which.

   I don't know when they applied the first DST patch, but it appears that
the longer it took to apply the first page, the worse the results.

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