Re: Solved... Was: Boolean dates...

So, it was boss speak, after all. Tell your boss to beware of the ides of bool.

On 10/23/2003 11:29:41 AM, Jose Luis Delgado wrote:
> List...
>
> I finally found the answer about the infamous 'boolean
> dates'! (this was the term that my boss used when he
> told me about the dates... boolean dates).
>
> After receiving a lot of mails talking about Julian
> dates... I started to test in that way.
>
> I could find the following which is the solution to my
> problem.
>
> sql> select bdate, to_date(bdate + 1721436, 'J') tdate
> sql> from paam
> sql> where rownum < 6;
>
> BDATE TDATE
> ------- --------
> 728464 01-JUL-95
> 728434 01-JUN-95
> 728403 01-MAY-95
> 728495 01-AUG-95
> 728283 01-JAN-95
>
> As you can see the key is: 1721436
>
> Thanks again to all!
> Best regards!
>
> JL
>
>
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