Seems to me that the only sensible thing to do in UK hospitals is to set all clocked equipment to GMT and leave them there. After all, in our modern
globalized world, surely we should all be synchronized to
Universal Time anyway? Happily for us Brits, UT and GMT are effectively the same. Of course, it goes without saying (I hope) that anything else other than the
24-hour clock format will be consigned to the bin of time.
Biomeds in other parts of the world can
make up their own minds, but I would suggest forgetting about
BST,
Daylight Saving Time and all the rest. All these different ways of recording time, are, after all, a throw-back to an
earlier age. The world has moved on! Except that is, if you are getting your time signal from the
NPL. Anyway, surely
Internet Time is the way to go?
