beginners question: four digit year

Hello !

I hope you can help me:

When select date values from an oracle database I always get the year with two digits displayed.
Of course I can decode the date with the oracle function and an recompose a new date format with a four digit year,
but is there an easy way to confige oracle (8.1.x) to deliver the date always with a four digit year ?

Thank you
J.F.Sebastian Received on Sat Jun 02 2001 - 08:28:20 CDT