Re: How to get timezone in 9i

  • From: Richard Ji <richard.c.ji@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:01:19 -0500

It's not a timezone switch.  You are still in the same timezone
but switching from daylight saving to none daylight saving.  The
OS handles such a switch.


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:17:42 -0500, Sami Seerangan <dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> but this will not handle timezone switch , say for example when we
> change from EST to EDT or vice versa.
> 
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:42:34 +0100, Christian Antognini
> <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >I need to get international time zones in 3 letter format, something
> > >like EST,CDT ....etc.
> > ALTER DATABASE SET TIME_ZONE = 'EST';
>  Then when you select DBTIMEZONE you get the correct format.
> > Notice that you cannot alter the database if it stores tables with 
> > TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE columns.
> >
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