Re: Time Zone Differences???

If I use the below to convert to a standard, is there a way of finding out from oracle...What is the current Time Zone? In the conversion below how can I find out if we are in CDT or CST?

select to_char(new_time(sysdate,'CDT','GMT'),'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss') from dual

In article <90jo4l$qun$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   Mike Krolewski <mkrolewski_at_rosetta.org> wrote:
> In article <90je19$hnp$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> stemp1ar_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > How do you account for users in a different time zone?
> >
> > Like when the server is in CST and users are in EST, and CST springs
> > ahead and falls back an hour?
> >
> > I know of a program program written in C that will get the zone
 info,
> > but is there another way of going about this?
> >
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>
> There are several possible solutions to this. If only one server
> exists, all time is specific to the server if one uses SQL to set
 time.
> If the client software sets the time, you have to be aware of this.
>
> Assuming time to the second is important, one could store both the
> users local time and a standard global time eg GMT. One can then alway
> tell the user the time he/she did something and determine when two
> events happened via the global time.
>
> If space makes two time stamps impractical, store all events in a
> particular time zone eg the server time or GMT. Then always convert
 the
> time to the time zone of the user.
>
> I personally developed my multizone software to convert the server
 time
> to the client time via sysdate and a timezone assigned to the user.
 One
> has to convert standard timezones to daylight savings and back twice a
> year.
>
> If the date is all that is important, you use the local time to
> determine which day it is, and store the date truncated or the date at
> midnight. Often a date in the future is just that, a day in the
 future.
> There is not hour::minute::second component. The major issue here is
> that you do not convert this day when changing timezones. The day is
> the day.
>
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> Michael Krolewski
> Rosetta Inpharmatics
> mkrolewski_at_rosetta.org
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Before you buy. Received on Fri Dec 08 2000 - 22:49:00 CST