Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: Oracle is a time machine!!

Re: Oracle is a time machine!!

From: Viral Desai <viral303_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:49:53 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0050995C.20021122104953@fatcity.com>

I think this is because during this time Pope Gregory removed 10 days from the calendar to align with solar calendar...

check this out...

http://webexhibits.org/calendars/timeline.html



 

>From: "Freeman, Robert"
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Subject: Oracle is a time machine!!
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:55:21 -0800
>
>Don't believe me?? Try this:
>
>create table test(the_date date);
>
>insert into test values (to_date('10-05-1582','mm-dd-yyyy') );
>
>select to_char(the_date, 'mm/dd/yyyy') from test;
>
>What do you get? :-))
>
>Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
>Oracle Database Architect
>CSX Midtier Database Administration
>Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com!
>
>Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How
>efficient of you.
>
>--
>Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
>--
>Author: Freeman, Robert
> INET: Robert_Freeman@csx.com
>
>Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com
>San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message
>to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in
>the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L
>(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may
>also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).


STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Viral Desai INET: viral303@hotmail.com Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 12:49:53 CST

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US