RE: Displaying time zone

You can

        select sessiontimezone, dbtimezone from dual;

I don't know how to manipulate it though. It seems like you should be able to do something like

        select sysdate-substr(sessiontimezone,1,3)/24 from dual;

to get the GMT, but I haven't been able to get it to work...

Beth

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I think that datatype DATE has no info about time zone in v. 8i. If you want to show time zone you have to read it from your server env or to store it separately in other column (and insert looks like INSERT .... VALUES( ... ,SYSDATE,'CE', ...) for central european time zone
etc.).

JP

On Fri 29. March 2002 17:39, you wrote:
> How do I display time zone in date format using SQL?
>
> Thanks,
> David

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