Re: GMT

As I usually do on timezone issues, I'm putting in my .02.

Keep in mind that you will need to switch between EDT and EST yourself. There's nothing for this yet, though I heard rumors of something in 9i. Anyone heard of anything new with timezones and 9i?

Marc Perkowitz
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• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:25 PM

> Thanks Ruth. The new_time function was exactly what I was looking for!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Gramolini
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:51 PM
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> This is to the person who asked the question about putting time into GMT.
>
> Here is a script that I got from one of the listers and modified.
>
> select to_char(sysdate,'MMDDYY HH:MI:SS'),
> TO_CHAR(new_time(sysdate,'EDT','GMT'),'MMDDYY HH:MI:SS') from dual;
>
> HTH,
> Ruth
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