[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20140117075158.GA2337 at ucolick.org>, 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.

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