Posted on 11/03/2018 7:21:38 PM PDT by Revel
So if a child is born at 1:59 am tonight(the first time around) then that is the time of birth.
If a child is born a minute later then the time of birth is 1:00am. Meaning the first child is now listed as being born an hour later.
If a child is born at 1:59 the 2nd time around then the time of birth is the same as the first one born an hour earlier.
So how is this corrected?
Is the date correct?
Is this a Female issue?
Drs and nurses have discretion in determining time.
You beat me to it. They are still fighting over a bowl of bean soup.
Works for spicy chili, too.
Look it up. The time changes at 2am so every event stays on the same day. What would’ve been 0201 becomes 0101 and you do the second hour over.
The international date line’s
An imaginary cleft.
Today is on the right side
And tomorrow’s on the left.
So when you cross it, do you then arrive
The day before you left?
That’s how it’d work, it’s quite berserk, you see.
So if you were born in China
While I’m born in Carolina,
Well, then, you’re a day ahead of me, you see.
So the way I’ve got it reckoned,
If we’re born in the same second,
Then why should you be a day older than me?
-Animaniacs
FR has too many trivial threads, which have nothing to do with politics, money, religion, crime or military.
One time years ago we had a problem with something - it may have been with our computer - and made a phone call.
The guy at the call center (Philippines) said, “Hello! Greetings from Tomorrow!”
(And he actually did help us.)
I think somebody beat us both ;-)
My daughter was born at 11:59 on April first. The doctor asked if I would prefer the April second. I said yes and her birthday is the second. They have discretion.
Civil time in the U.S. is not monotonic in jurisdictions practicing daylight savings time. It goes backwards one hour every year, currently at 02:00 AM local civic time on the first Sunday in November. (To avoid trick or treating after dark up north.)
In cases where it is considered necessary to unambiguously order or identify instances of time, one would use a monotonic time scale. As another poster has pointed out, one such time scale would be local standard time. In the U.S., and most of the world, standard time zones are offset from UTC (colloquially, but called GMT) by an integer number of hours. In order not to waste early morning daylight, in the summer most jurisdictions shift civil time ahead one hour between the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November.
These days civil time is denoted by a two letter abbreviation, the time zone, and “T”. Eastern Time is ET, central time CT, and so on with MT and PT. When DLST is in effect ET means EDT, otherwise it means EST, Eastern Standard Time. Use of EDT and EST, and similar is discouraged, except to make distinctions. Where necessary.
A commission in Massachusetts recently recommended adopting DSLT year round, but only if the rest of the country in the Eastern Time zone agreed.
My brother and granny were both born on April 1. It’s fun :-)
My granddaughter, Molly, was born 11:45 AM on December 31. Daddie’s little tax deduction. She will be seven this year, and she has the right disposition for her birthday. I call her Molly Golightly. (She’s a party girl.)
We have a Cooking Thread, too (q.v.)
:-)
“Isn’t it a problem if you want a horoscope?”
That fact someone wants a superstitious horoscope is the problem. The fact that a mere man-made timezone issue confuses a horoscope shows what a crock they are.
Which is the first born in terms of royal twins?
I think they put little plastic bracelets or anklets on twins. The people actually there would know which was born first.
My brother in law was born on April first. The same daughter also gave birth to a son on April first. Had I not made that decision he would have been born on his momma’s birthday.
It might not have anything to do with money, politics, religion, crime, or the military, but it’s not a trivial issue. I’ve worked on electronic medical record systems for several decades, and it’s a major issue that takes a lot of planning and coordination every year.
The “spring forward” time change is not nearly as complicated, but it, too, has serious implications for electronic medical record systems.
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