Thanks to all who replied with helpful comments, pointers, links etc...
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Sent: January 23, 2004 3:24 PM
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Harry
This list is moving to freelists, but I'll assume you knew that.
Actually the base value for the standard Oracle dates is Jan 1, 4712 BC.
There is a Julian function that will return the number of days since the
base. To return the Julian,
select to_char(sysdate,'J') from dual;
Also, Oracle9i has some new date types and you may find one that works
better for your purposes:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/oracle9i/daily/may02.html
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:40 AM
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Folks:
>From what I gather, Oracle stores dates as the number of elapsed days since
Jan 1, 1968. When I query a column of type 'DATE', it returns me the
default format, dd-mon-yy. I know I can use to_char(date_col,'YYYYMMDD')
etc... to define many output formats.
What can I do to get the raw internal value of the date? i.e. today is
13172.
Thanks.
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