Re: function to get GMT time

No, there's not. There are too many variations in timezones and daylight saving/summer time offsets. The only way to be certain with timezone adjustments is to run your computer in GMT and then build your own functions to adjust to local time. If you need to have multiple local times, be sure to stay up-to-date with daylight savings/summer time offsets. Many countries change these thruout the year for various reasons. For example, Australia had a very early summertime adjustment for one year last year for the Olympics.

For current daylight savings adjustments see www.timeanddate.com.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:45 AM

> Hi !
>
> Is there a way to get GMT time within PL/SQL independent from
> the local time(zone), I'm looking for a function similar to SYSDATE,
> but it should return GMT instead of the local time.
>
>
> TIA
>
> Andreas
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