AW: function to get GMT time

Thanks to all who responded.
Sure, I meant Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

After all, there seems no simple way to get UTC in PL/SQL, i.e. without a switch-over table for daylight saving time, although at least UNIX-like operating systems use UTC internally and POSIX conformant systems should have the C function gmtime(). In order to avoid OS dependecies / installation problems I'd like to avoid any foreign language ( from the PL/SQL point of view ) modules; well, er ..except if someone had a Java snippet ... ;)

Now I'll probably have to resort to the method I wanted to avoid: Write a PL/SQL function and use a switch-over table, which has to be maintained by hand - sigh...

Thanks again for your replies,
I really did not expect so many responses.

Regards
  Andreas

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> Von: Haunschmidt Andreas VASL/FAS[SMTP:Andreas.Haunschmidt_at_voest.co.at]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. April 2001 17:45
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> Hi !
>
> Is there a way to get GMT time within PL/SQL independent from
> the local time(zone), I'm looking for a function similar to SYSDATE,
> but it should return GMT instead of the local time.
>
>
> TIA
>
> Andreas
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