Re: [Gnumed-bugs] GNUmed does not allow same-day substance discontinuations

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 04:55:45PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> > The user chooses (or types the
> > date for) today. This will be without the time. GNUmed
> > assumes 11:11:11.111am. ….
> 
> Can you identify for us whether GNUmed ever saves a
> GUI-displayed date with "time precision" even when the time
> was not displayed?

As far as the backend is concerned most if not all fields
are full timestamps.

> Also, I find it cumbersome to enter date-times (other than now) into GNUmed, 
> in as much as
> 
> - the time of the interaction with GNUmed is often not
> real-time, such that I would prefer the time entity to be
> "rounded off" or "truncated" (for example, when a patient
> informs me that they stopped their medication late last
> week, there is uncertainty whether it was Thursday or even
> Saturday
> 
> - are there therefore easier ways to enter a date, such as anything like
> 
>       today at 10:15 am --> 10:15

<t>, select suggestion, add <SPACE-1-0-:-1-5>, select suggestion

>       two days ago at noon --> -2d 12

<-2d> selection suggestion, add <SPACE-1-2>, select suggestion

>       tomorrow at 1700h --> 1d 1700 (or +1d 17:00)

<m> or <+1d> ....

Karsten
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