RE: Oracle is a time machine!!

Gregorian calendar input before 15th October 1582 or after 30th January 4247 is not valid. There was wide variation in the date of adoption of the Gregorian calendar. For example,
in Great Britain and colonies, the Julian date Wednesday 2nd September 1752 Old Style was followed the next day by the Gregorian date Thursday 14th September 1752.
Oracle is taking the calendar change (Julian->Gregorian) into account.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hayes, Scott [mailto:Scott.Hayes_at_ca.thalesgroup.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:19 PM
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> Subject: RE: Oracle is a time machine!!
>
>
> It must have converted the date to metric.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:55 PM
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>
> 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
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