[ale] Stupid people and DST

[Jim Kinney]

The horror stories I've heard of medical data lost every fall on the time change boggles my mind. Nursing staff prints paper records up to 2am then watches it vanish from the screen.

On March 15, 2022 11:47:04 AM EDT, Jerald Sheets via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Last I checked people still IPL mainframes twice a year in a medical
>environment “because IBM”.  (to conflate two separate rants) :-D
>
>—j
>
>> On Mar 14, 2022, at 3:41 PM, Brian Stanaland via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>> 
>> Join rant
>> 
>> Remember the old saying, "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM?"
>People still said it long after they should have been fired for it.
>Politicians and time change are the same way. They talk about it to
>show concern but they won't DO anything about it even though years of
>studies show that changing times is very bad for our health and well
>being.

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