RE: Solved... Was: Boolean dates...

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_lifetouch.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:44:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D41F7.20031023114434@fatcity.com>

Congratulations Jose

   And I always thought the key was 42!

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

List...

I finally found the answer about the infamous 'boolean dates'! (this was the term that my boss used when he told me about the dates... boolean dates).

After receiving a lot of mails talking about Julian dates... I started to test in that way.

I could find the following which is the solution to my problem.

sql> select bdate, to_date(bdate + 1721436, 'J') tdate
sql> from paam
sql> where rownum < 6;

BDATE TDATE

------- --------
728464  01-JUL-95
728434  01-JUN-95
728403  01-MAY-95
728495  01-AUG-95
728283  01-JAN-95

As you can see the key is: 1721436

Thanks again to all!
Best regards!

JL

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