Why does the patient Flowsheet look strange after the DST? Print
Modified on: Fri, 30 Oct, 2020 at 4:07 PM
When a clinic's flowsheet start time is at/near midnight you may notice some strange things happen at daylight saving, namely, you could have a different start time of the flowsheet with one hour missed or 2 days with the same date. All this behavior is DST related. When that happens, you have another extra hour that moves others, but the number of hours per flowsheet day remains the same. In this way, SmartFlow recognizes all entries made during this period as Day 1 and then determines the date of Day 2 by its first hour. So that you will get two days of the same date.
All of the following flowsheet days will also start at 23:00 with the shown date shifted one day back, while the actual date for the 8:00 entrance will be correct - November 6:
To avoid incorrect timestamps in the patient's medical records and not miss any days of treatment, please always follow the blue highlighting, even if the date on the flowsheet above appears to be incorrect. This blue highlighted column always indicates the current day and time, so you will not miss anything:
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