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I am running Oracle Workgroup Server version 7.3.4.1.1 on a Windows NT 4.0 server with service pack 5.
In an attempt to set the date format to DD-MON-YYYY, I added the following: NLS_DATE_FORMAT="DD-MON-YYYY" to the init.ora file restarted the database but still it would accept and display dates in DD-MON-YY format. Next, I removed the "My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\NLS_LANG registry entry and the database would display dates in DD-MON-YYYY format but would still accept DD-MON-YY in an insert or update and store the date value as DD-MON-00YY.
Has anybody encountered this problem and can anybody please tell how to solve it. In all my UNIX installation all I had to do is the change in the init.ora file and everything goes well. Thank you.
Regards,
Ezzedin Habib
Received on Mon Dec 13 1999 - 00:00:00 CST
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