Posted on 11/03/2018 7:21:38 PM PDT by Revel
It’s actually Greenwich Mean Time GMT; or more currently Coordinated Universal Time UTC.
Damned if I know .... I was born on February 29th !
Horoscopes are calculated using GMT and latitude/longitude along with how far from the Prime Meridian your birthspot is, and whether you are east (add 4 minutes per degree off) or west (subtract 4 minutes per degree off) of the Prime. So, someone born at midnight local time in Atlanta may not have an 23:59, 00:00 or 00:01 horoscope, depending on how far off GMT they are.
But to play devil’s advocate, even if GMT wasn’t the standard used, an hour is negligible. Mercury moves 4 degrees in 24 hours, so about 1 degree every six hours. The moon moves 12 degrees in 24 hours, or 1/2 degree per hour. The rest of the planets just mosey along; Pluto moving something like one degree every 60 years. Angles between planets don’t have to be absolutely exact, ie., 88 is still counted as a 90 degree angle; 92 would also be looked at as 90 degrees. An hour on the cusp isn’t remarkable either since with cusp planets one has to consider the influence of adjoining cusp signs on that planet anyway. And, finally, a single degree wouldn’t affect sidereal time calculations for house horizon placement when doing a simple birth chart.
And they say time travel isn’t possible.
Over a lifetime, the “error” has zero meaning....too many other “nits” to pick to worry about banalities.
It’s corrected with dice. Doctors use dice to decide. True fact.
“So the second twin could legally be born before their elder sibling.”
That would be weird. Could it create legal issues later re firstborn, etc.?
No different than one twin being born at 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 31 and the second one at 12:02 a.m. on Nov. 1
We made the “leap” from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar and somehow we did not collapse as a society. Y2K didn’t destroy the planet.
I’m just glad that the bars that close at 2:00 get to serve and extra hour.
A ridiculous, illogical outcome of a ridiculous, illogical practice.
There are two “1 am’s”, the first and the second.
A solution would be to record the times as UTC, but unfortunately 80% of the population has no idea what is meant by UTC.
Drive really fast between births to the next time zone
Why does it matter if your exact time of birth is off by a few minutes, while human life span is 44,676,000 minutes?
The bigger problem is if the BCs will show genders and if so which of the 4 dozen genders.
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene has done some fascinating talks on the nature of time; past, present, future are equally real and existent at the same...Time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdnKgyGfbq4
cool- They shoudl give out a ‘reward’ for those who have children closest to the time change, like they do for those born right after the beginning of the new year-
You get fireworks!
What is signicant to electronic medical records is the time change, and the proper sequence of events. For example, if a patient has stat blood drawn at 1:50 am, and ten minutes later the clock goes back to 1:00, and 10 minutes after that, the results come back, the the results will be seen by the system as having come back at 1:10 am, 40 minutes before the blood was drawn, and will cause all sorts of errors, delaying treatment and causing confusion.
That’s just the most obvious issue. But there are many more subtle issues, such as the timing of batch jobs that have to occur in order to get correct results, and consistency between computer systems that send data to each other, nurses giving and documenting care during that second 1:00-2:00 hour, patients who arrive in the emergency department during that time, and the assignment of medical record numbers for new patients if it is dependent on the time
I work at a major world class hospital, and we start planning for the change about three weeks ahead of time to be sure we have a good handle on the processes that need to be modified, the proper communications need to be sent out, new employees (and old ones, too) know what to do, batch jobs are rescheduled as needed, new systems are accounted for, all documentation is up to date, etc.
It’s not a huge effort, but it’s one we have to make sure we get right. There are all sorts of patient safety, legal, regulatory, insurance, and financial implications that people not in the field would never think of.
That’s very interesting; something one would never think of when going to the emergency room.
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