Thanks for the quick reply, I'm going to try to make a PL/SQL wrapper for it... Andreas -----Original Message----- From: Khemmanivanh, Somckit [mailto:somckit.khemmanivanh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:26 AM To: Haunschmidt Andreas VAIG.TWI; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Date Conversion Function Localtime to UTC (Java Wrapper) Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for by I use it to convert=20 import java.util.*; import java.text.*; public class get_time { public static final void main(String args[]) { if (args.length =3D=3D 1) { ConvertUTC(args[0]); } else { System.out.println("Specific UTC time"); } } public get_time () { } public static String ConvertUTC(String sUTC) { final DateFormat format =3D DateFormat.getInstance(); String date =3D format.format(new Date(Long.parseLong(sUTC))); System.out.println(date); return (date); } } I use this code to convert Unix time to a date format, I guess ConvertUTC is what you're really after. For example: java get_time 0001119999999999 and the output is: 6/28/05 4:06 PM Thanks!=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas.Haunschmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:00 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Date Conversion Function Localtime to UTC (Java Wrapper) 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 =3D20 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=3D20 the wheel, I'm hoping someone could give me a hint, or=3D20 - much appreciated:) - sample code. Thanks in advance -- Andreas -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l