RE: sql query

From: Ram <ram_at_tpindia.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 03:17:22 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002DF540.20010403025023@fatcity.com>

Hi ,
3600 is for 60min x 60 sec.
Cheers :)
Rama Raju

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Basavaraja
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:30 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I found a query to get the time 5 seconds less than the current time as

select to_char(sysdate-5/(24*3600),'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss') from dual;

I am really not sure as to why 24*3600 is used for.

Can anyone tell me why it is used.

Thanks
Ravindra
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