Dear list members, I'm looking for 2 functions like this: FUNCTION local2UTC(iDATE IN DATE) RETURN DATE IS -- Returns UTC for iDATE in localtime BEGIN ... END; and the inverse function =20 FUNCTION UTC2local(iDATE IN DATE) RETURN DATE IS -- Returns localtime for iDATE in UTC BEGIN ... END; Someone told me there is a Java class (java.calender) which could help doing that. It should be possible then to use it in PL/SQL (server side Oracle 9.2) by wrapping it. As I'm not a Java specialist and in order not to reinvent=20 the wheel, I'm hoping someone could give me a hint, or=20 - much appreciated:) - sample code. Thanks in advance -- Andreas -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l