Why doctors hate their computers
This was the part that absolutely stunned me:> 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.Any system like this that fails to store all times as UTC is broken.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.