Re: find out timezone for SYSDATE?

From: Mark W Modrall <modrall_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:43:27 GMT
Message-ID: <FsLKsF.3AB@world.std.com>

yep, knew how to do that, but the missing link is How do you know if Sysdate is in EST in the first place? can't find any SQL way to find out...

someone already responded with a shared library implementation, saying that there is no way in SQL; you have to plug something in and register a stored procedure to call your plugin...

-mark

In article <38EB9B6B.819C70F5_at_hotmail.com>, chadwick <poleetea_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>Dear Mark,
>
>If you just want to do date conversion, you can try this
>
>for example:
>
>SELECT NEW_TIME(sysdate,'EST','GMT') from dual;
>
>to convert Eastern Standard Time to GMT, or
>
>SELECT NEW_TIME(sysdate,'EDT','GMT') from dual;
>
>to convert Eastern Daylight Time to GMT.
>
>I found this at the web site of
>http://www.orafans.com/bbs/rdbmssql/bbs.htm .
>If the above SQL are not what you want, you may post you question in
>the above site.
>
>Chadwick Leung.
>
>
>
>Mark W Modrall ¼g¹D¡G
>
>> Hi...
>>
>> is there any way to find out the timezone that SYSDATE
>> is in? i called oracle support about this, but they're worse
>> than trained monkeys... I don't see how any of the date conversion
>> routines would be at all useful if you can't find out what timezone
>> the system is in, but i couldn't find any way to do it...
>>
>> thanks
>> -mark
>
Received on Thu Apr 06 2000 - 08:43:27 CDT