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Re: Internal date format (numerical)

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:27:11 GMT
Message-ID: <Pv6kf.35359$6e1.5173@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> 





Mark Bole wrote:



[...]


> 

> 2. Leap seconds -- in a database, they don't really need to be accounted 

> for.  Most servers are synch'ed at the OS level to various known good 

> time sources, and those time sources handle skipping of the leap second, 

> so SYSDATE should always provide a valid time. [...]




Oops -- leap seconds are more commonly inserted, not skipped.



-Mark Bole
Received on Fri Dec 02 2005 - 19:27:11 CST












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