Re: 2 digit date problem

Thank you.

Darren

Sybrand Bakker wrote:
>
> use dd-mon-rr as date mask.
>
> Hth,
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> Darren Brock <brock_at_governet.net> wrote in message
> news:388E199F.8DA8172E_at_governet.net...
> > Hi
> > We receive a 'lot' of data from clients and we recently noticed that
> > some of them are giving us 2 digit years. Oracle is tacking '20' onto
> > the front to make them '2000'. the problem is that most of the dates are
> > supposed to be '19xx' and we get '2099' etc. instead. I thought Oracle
> > had a mechanism that when receiving a 2 digit year put 19 on if the 2
> > digit year was greater than thirty? I am obviously wrong. Any ideas on
> > how I can rectify this so it is taken care of during the loads?
> >
> > Oracle 8.0.4 on Sun Sparc, Solaris
> >
> > Darren
Received on Tue Jan 25 2000 - 17:17:22 CST