Oracle-L: RE: Date conversion

From: Naveen Nahata <naveen_nahata_at_mindtree.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 02:54:02 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005382F2.20030123025402@fatcity.com>

SELECT to_date('01-01-1970','DD-MM-YYYY') + no_of_seconds / (24*60*60) from dual;

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Naveen
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Hi all

One of the developers came to me. They are using a Genesys call logging system.

It has apparently stored a date time in a number field as the number of seconds since 1970 1 Jan 0:00

They need to know exactly what time this is.

I can not off hand remember that oracle got a conversion routine for this.

Anyone know of one, they prefer something already there compared to something that I write.

I was thinking figure out how many days the seconds represent, add this to the date of 1 Jan 1970. then figure out what time of day the remainder seconds are to determine the time of day ?

Ideas.

George

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