Re: Set Timezone of Oracle Server

Have you considered establishing an environment variable for "Time zone offset" which would contain the offset from EST for a client and then changing your queries to do date arithmetic against SYSDATE?

hth
jerry gitomer

Jerry Althoff wrote in message ...
|We will have a database with clients scattered across US
timezones. Much
|of the time based data in the database will be stored in GMT
timezone. We
|need to timestamp various transactions from the clients using
SYSDATE
|which also need to be in GMT for correllation. How can we get
the timezone
|of the Solaris 8.0.5 server set to GMT?
|
|When I test with a SQL*NET (not Net8) client with its TZ
environment
|variable set to GMT, the database, on an Eastern Standard Time
(EST)
|machine, stores the value of SYSDATE as EST. However, if on the
same EST
|server, I set the client's TZ to GMT and use SQLPLUS, the
SYSDATE is
|stored as GMT.
|
|How can I reboot the Solaris Oracle 8.0.5 instance only with the
TZ=GMT?
|I added TZ=GMT to the /etc/rc.d script, but it had no effect. I
hesitate
|to use the Unix date command to change the time and timezone of
the entire
|server because that will mess with non-Oracle apps and other
independent
|Oracle instances.
|
|I have studied as much of the Oracle doc's as I could stand and
only found
|a weak time conversion SQL function. Oracle seems timezone
illiterate.
|Surely there must be a standard solution to this problem.
Received on Sat Dec 04 1999 - 00:11:06 CST