Why doctors hate their computers
This was the part that absolutely stunned me:<p>> Last fall, the night before daylight-saving time ended, an all-user e-mail alert went out. The system did not have a way to record information when the hour from 1 a.m. to 1:59 a.m. repeated in the night. This was, for the system, a surprise event. The only solution was to shut down the lab systems during the repeated hour.<p>Any system like this that fails to store all times as UTC is broken.<p>No one should make this mistake more than once. I made it once, and boy was it painful. And boy did I feel stupid to realize I had forgotten about daylight savings time. I just can't see how it was possible for the designers of this huge system to miss this.