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Re: sysdate function - possible to override

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:49:27 +0100
Message-ID: <es4ipd$rej$2@news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


Luch schreef:
> some of our customers need to operate in zulu time but must keep the
> box their Oracle DB is on in local time (such as Eastern).
>
> We wrote a stored proc to convert the sysdate from their local time
> into zulu. It works fine. But some programmers will still call SYSDate
> from their code, which is bad because then the "wrong" time is
> returned and they won't realize it when developing.
>
> my thinking is to override the sysdate function. Is this possible? I
> welcome any suggestions on how to deal with above issue.
>

timestamp with timezone, anyone?

Or are you still on a no-longer-supported-version?

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Wed Feb 28 2007 - 12:49:27 CST

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