Oracle-L: Re: Funny stuff

From: Arup Nanda <orarup_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:41:46 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00597E50.20030513114146@fatcity.com>

Stephane,

Look at your format string 'DD-MON HH24:MM:SS' in TO_CHAR, the minutes placeholder actually pulls the month MM not minutes, whih should have been MI. I uspect your NLS_DATE FORMAT is correctly set to MI, not MM.

HTH. Arup

Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:11 PM

> Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.3.0,
> Linux RH 2.4.18-3
>
> NLS_DATE_FORMAT set to 'DD-MON HH24:MM:SS'
>
> SQL> select max(newest_time),
> 2 TO_CHAR(max(NEWEST_TIME), 'DD-MON HH24:MM:SS')
> 3 from DBA_LOGSTDBY_PROGRESS
> 4 /
> .../...
>
> MAX(NEWEST_TIME TO_CHAR(MAX(NEW
> --------------- ---------------
> 13-MAY 16:46:50 13-MAY 16:05:50
>
>
> Anybody care to comment ? (Joe, I already know what you think ...)
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephane Faroult
> Oriole
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