export with query date field

List,

I am trying to do an export query with a date field. I have tired different syntax. I know there are 500+ records with a date of 11/06/2003 in this table. What is wrong with my query since it returns no records? I have done this with character fields with no problem. What am I missing in the date syntax?

$exp user/pwd file=test.dmp log=test.log tables=processing_messages

             query=\"where message_date=to_date\(\'11/06/2003\'\,
\'MM/DD/YYYY\'\)\"                                

example output:

Export: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Thu Nov 6 15:30:21 2003

(c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
Export done in US7ASCII character set and US7ASCII NCHAR character set

About to export specified tables via Conventional Path ... . . exporting table PROCESSING_MESSAGES 0 rows exported Export terminated successfully without warnings.

thanks,

David Ehresmann

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