Pointers: year 2000 problem in Oracle

I've read all the Y2000 threads. I don't wish to start another thread on one of those general issues.

My question relates solely to Oracle:

Facts:

1. Oracle itself does not have a Y2000 problem because it internally stores all dates with 4 digits in the year.
2. A lot of programs written for Oracle (e.g. in SQL*Plus) uses dates with 2-digit years.

The problem in (2) relates to the default Oracle date format: DD-MON-YY. Can this be changed to something like DD-MON-YYYY ??
(WITHOUT BREAKING THE OLD CODE ??)
Has Oracle written anything on the Y2000 problem ??

If so where can I find this information ??

Is Oracle Corp. doing anything to ease the problem in (2) ??
(one would hope that they would - quickly - implement somekind
of feature that would allow us to gradually migrate from the current default date format to a new expanded date format).

Lars Bruun
Unibank, Denmark Received on Sun Oct 20 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST