Re: How to get timezone in 9i

but this will not handle timezone switch , say for example when we change from EST to EDT or vice versa.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:42:34 +0100, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini_at_trivadis.com> wrote:
> >I need to get international time zones in 3 letter format, something
> >like EST,CDT ....etc.
> ALTER DATABASE SET TIME_ZONE = '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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