Somehow, TZ is not recognized in my system. I am using oracle 8.1.7 on solaris 5.8. Did you actually tried out in your system ? Do I need to set up any NLS variable in order to use the 'TZ' keyword ?
Thanks, Jie Anna Fong wrote: > Use Oracle's to_date function. > > Example: > > select ename, hiredate > from emp > where hiredate = TO_DATE('Thu Sep 20 15:03:10 PDT 2001','DY MON DD > HH24:MI:SS TZ YYYY'); > > At 03:58 PM 10/01/2001 -0700, jie zhang wrote: > >Does anybody know if Oracle can take the date format as 'Thu Sep 20 > >15:03:10 PDT 2001') ? > > > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Jie > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Anna Q. Fong, Webmaster > California Data Exchange Center