Re: oracle sysdate problem ??

From: Mark J. Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:43:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004CF2B0.20020912164326@fatcity.com>

Leslie,

Hint #1:  Try 'mm/dd/yy hh:mi:ss am' for your format string.
Hint #2:  'mm' is month, 'mi' is minutes.
Hint #3:  As September is the 9th month, I think your output makes

sense. ;-)

(I remember making this mistake, oh, probably more than 10 years ago, on version 6. Some things never change! ;-))

Hope that helps,

-Mark
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 19:53, Leslie Lu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did a select sysdate from dual, and got 04:09:39 pm,
> but my machine system time is 4:47pm, which is right.
>
> SQL> select to_char(sysdate,'mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss am')
> from dual;
>
> TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'MM/
> --------------------
> 09/12/02 04:09:39 pm
>
> How did Oracle get the time? What needs to be set in
> order to get the correct time?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Leslie
>
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