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Re: Give Me The Current Date Please

Karl Reitschuster — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:26:20 -0000

The should have called it CLIENT_DATE it's the date where the Client operates :-)

timestamps has another disadvanatge if you import (imp) data on a table with a timestamp, it's not loded bulk but row per row. that's what i experienced on 10.2;

if a sysdate should be used or not could be depend on businesss rules. For example using ebay a sysdate should used to store your transaction to be able to compare it against other competitiors

cheers
Karl

Re: Give Me The Current Date Please

Laurent Schneider — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:19:29 -0000

> then you have no daylight saving issues for instance
some issues are related to Oracle and to the goverments changing rules over and over. Did you a know an island with about 500 people and 1000 birds did introduce a half-an-hour summer offset that produced bugs in 10gR2 :)

select timestamp '2007-10-27 15:00:00 +00:00' at time zone 'Australia/LHI' from dual;
ORA-01878: specified field not found in datetime or interval

But yes, using date instead of timestamp is probably not the best approach. Still a lot of function do not work with timestamp, like LAST_DAY, ADD_MONTHS and TRUNC

Re: Give Me The Current Date Please

Chris Dawes — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:33:17 -0000

why do people still store dates in anything but GMT... it's beyond my imagination...

Local dates cause 'big issues' when the apps are taken overseas!! Welcome to 2008 people! Local time and date - great for display, not for storage!!!

(then you have no daylight saving issues for instance!!)