RE: NLS_DATE_FORMAT not effective..help!

Arul

In init.ora have you specified MM/DD/YYYY WITHOUT Quotes , as follows simply :-

NLS_DATE_FORMAT=MM/DD/YYYY
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Kendall [SMTP:Martin.Kendall_at_Rubus.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:36 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: NLS_DATE_FORMAT not effective..help!
>
> Just create a Database on-logon trigger and setup the date as you want it.
> Then providing any "client" does not do an alter session you will have a
> standard DB date format.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 20 March 2001 08:36
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi Gurus,
>
> We want to change the default date format of oracle from
> 'dd-mon-yy' to 'MM/DD/YYYY' format for one of our database ( 8.1.6 ).
>
> I have set NLS_DATE_FORMAT as "MM/DD/YYYY" (also tried RRRR for year!)
> in init file. It doesn't seems to have any effect when i query sysdate
> (SQL PLUS) from a client PC (Win 95 / Oracle 8 client / SQL PLUS) .
> Still in SQL PLUS it is displaying the date as 20-MAR-01 ( default
> format - dd-mon-yy)
>
> Ofcourse, after modifying, i bounced the db and listener.
>
> Interesting thing is when i query sysdate from SQLPLUS of my server
> (where Oracle is installed ), it is giving me the date as
>
> SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL;
>
> 03/20/200 ( it should be 03/20/2001 )
>
> What went wrong? Did anyone faced similar problem....?
> Do i need to modify registry in client PCs ( Win 9X)...??
>
> Thank You.
> Arul.
>

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