Re: simple question about default date mask?

A copy of this was sent to <yliu_at_creighton.edu> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:16:20 -0600, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Could somebody please tell me how to set the default mask of a session to
>include the four digit year? Currently, my sql*plus date mask is
>'dd-Mon-yy', and I wanted it to be 'dd-Mon-yyyy' just for my current
>session.
>
>Thank you very much for your time.
>
>Yongge
>

SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='dd-mon-yyyy';

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