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Re: Incorrect Oracle Sysdate

From: Martin Doherty <martin.doherty_at_oracle.nospam.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:03:49 -0800
Message-ID: <VFUx9.10$E23.151@news.oracle.com> 





This is a nice little thought experiment. If it isn't coming from the 
hardware clock, where IS Oracle getting the information from?




tvf wrote:



>Out of curiosity, does select sysdate actually read from the Unix

>system time or does it get set when the db is first brought up?

>

>Thanks.

>  

>

Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 13:03:49 CST












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