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Re: Perl and Java and PL/SQL and SYSDATE

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 02:54:42 GMT
Message-ID: <SX8td.39474$6q2.20022@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>


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.com
Received on Mon Dec 06 2004 - 20:54:42 CST

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