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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Help !!!! Problems of converting EST time and GMT time in Oracle8 !!!
Hi All:
I am having problem of converting the time in local time into gmt time and store the gmt time in the database. I have played around the following to test out the conversion was done probably:
In sqlplus, the following command was executed
SQL> select TO_CHAR(sysdate, 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD
In my local term (a linux base platform), I use the date command to
check the system time.
The system time is recorded as follow:
Wed Sep 8 12:17:57 EST 1999
Result, I confirm that the sysdate function does in sync with my local system time which is EST.
Back the sqlplus, I execute to the following command to convert from EST to GMT :
SQL> select TO_CHAR(new_time(sysdate, 'EST', 'GMT'), 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;
TO_CHAR(NEW_TIME(SY
Again, I check my local system in UTC (which is the same as GMT), it gives the following result:
Wed Sep 8 02:26:08 UTC 1999
The GMT time obtained from the sqlplus was around forwards to my local system time which was incorrect. The correct GMT should around 10 hours backwards to my local zone time as (because I am in Melbourne Australia) indicated from my xterm.
It seems to me that the GMT time obtained from sqlplus was respected to the US time zone.
Is any body know how to fix my problem !!!!!
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Kevin LEE
Software Engineer
Australian Business Access Pty Ltd
Level 2, 33 Lincoln Square South
Carlton, Victoria 3053
phone +61-3-8341-2400
fax +61-3-8341-2499
Received on Tue Sep 07 1999 - 21:28:44 CDT
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