Re: Boolean dates...

From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:54:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D3F95.20031022075443@fatcity.com>

Jose Luis,

Is it possible that your boss actually means "Julian date", not "boolean date"? If you speak the two phrase out loud, there are enough similarities to allow mispronunciation or misinterpretation?

I tried one of your date values and it didn't work out so well, but if the format is _similar_ to the Julian format employed by Oracle, you might have a better time searching Google for "julian date" rather than "boolean date". Just thinking out loud...

Here is what I got using one of the values you displayed:

    SQL> select to_date(728283,'J') from dual;

    TO_DATE(728

---

    06-DEC-2719 And here is the Julian date value for today...

    SQL> select to_char(sysdate,'J') from dual;

    TO_CHAR

---

    2452935

Hope this helps...

-Tim

> Hi to all!
>
> We have an old app that manages something that my boss
> calls: boolean dates.
>
> He told me that exists an algorithm that manages dates
> as a boolean format.
>
> We have several tables in this form:
>
> Note: The following table: PAAM
> has the field BDATE defined as NUMBER.
>
> sql> select bdate from paam
> sql> where rownum < 6
>
> BDATE
> ----------
> 728464
> 728434
> 728403
> 728495
> 728283
>
> now, I need to convert that format to an
> 'understandable' format to get the old data and old
> dates.
>
> I'm looking (google-ing) for that subject but, without
> luck.
>
> any ideas? help?, pls...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards!
> JL
>
>
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