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Craig & Co. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Didn't know that all machines run in UTC. Oh well it's implied in our TZ
> settings anyhow.
>
> Yes, I'm in Australia and on the East coast, but the time difference between
> UTC and ESDT (Eastern Standard Daylight Time)
> is 11 hours, not 12 hours, so unfortunately that rules that out. :-)
>
> Definitely checked my 'show parameters nls' in both Oracle 8.1.7.4 databases
> and the
> timezone information is there.
> I altered the default settings, mainly changing the Time parameter from
> HH:MI:SSXFF to HH24:MI:SSXFF
> in any settings with that format. This was done to enforce the 24 hour
> nature of the database.
>
> Cheers
> Craig.
>
>
Great, I think that will help.
-- Mark Bole http://www.bincomputing.comReceived on Mon Dec 06 2004 - 20:54:42 CST
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