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Originally Posted by mjohnson
My old boss, and yes he's still the boss, has "Dr" as his first name, and "...PhD" as his last name. Such a douchebag...
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In my previous job we had a manager with PhD, who when pressed insisted he was right and I was wrong when I raised an issue of incorrect time standards in Medical DICOM vs usage in computer context as UTC.
2 fields
Local Time
UTC offset
the Dicom standard says
Field 1 is local time
UTC is the offset of that time to UTC
But it was written in terribly chitty language so all computer geeks typically read it as
Time and UTC offset is to indicate how far to calculate the local time from UTC
So lets say NYC
10 AM
Offset -5
In Dicom that means, the RX is taken at 10 AM
And that 10 AM means 10 AM when its 15h00 UTC
in computer standards
computer time is ALWAYS UTC
and then you use the offset to find out the human time at the location
10 -5 would be 5AM somewhere in Kazachstan or whatever
Each year at DST changes, people would have to correct all kinds of rules to workaround the mistakes in the various areas of the Software made by teams under that PhD manager
yet he insisted, he knew how to read the standard better then me, because he was a PhD
In the end I wrote the email CC PHD to the standards comittee and asked them if they could clarify if the PhD has better reading comprehension then the high school drop out.
And that was the end of that
