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Re: HELP: DateTime problems

From: Matthias Gresz <GreMa_at_t-online.de>
Date: 1997/12/30
Message-ID: <68al30$9ls$1@news01.btx.dtag.de>#1/1

Geoffrey Callaghan wrote:
>
> I am having a problem reconciling times between Delphi 1.0 and Oracle 7.3.
> Apparantly, Delphi uses a double to hold a Date/Time value, whereas Oracle
> only goes down to the seconds level. Occasionally, this causes two time
> values that should be equal to register as unequal.
>
> Is there some way to ensure that Oracle doesn't look beyond the seconds
> level in a date comparison? From what I've read, it shouldn't be doing
> that anyway, but I've run out of ideas.
>
> Geoff Callaghan
> callagha_at_cs.fsu.edu

Hi Geoff,

didn't check out but look at to_date()-function and use the format-string to ignore seconds.

-- 
Regards

Matthias Gresz    :-)
Received on Tue Dec 30 1997 - 00:00:00 CST

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