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RE: How to get timezone in 9i

From: Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini_at_trivadis.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:42:34 +0100
Message-ID: <2CF83791A616BB4DA203FFD13007824A01E6B6BB@MSXVS02.trivadis.com> 





>I need to get international time zones in 3 letter format, something

>like EST,CDT ....etc.




ALTER DATABASE SET TIME_ZONE =3D 'EST';


Then when you select DBTIMEZONE you get the correct format.



Notice that you cannot alter the database if it stores tables with =
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE columns.

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