Now that's funny. Did he work on the mirror for the Hubble telescope? Joel Patterson Database Administrator joel.patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx x72546 904 727-2546 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:05 PM To: nigel_cl_thomas@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: Oracle 10046 tim, e and ela Values use Nanoseconds/1024 not Microseconds, on some Platforms On 3/31/07, Nigel Thomas <nigel_cl_thomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Andrew You're not the first to discover the joys of Oracle time - eg see Jonathan Lewis's http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/time_unit.html <http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/time_unit.html> dated 15 Dec 2002. Indeed. Also see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/sleep.html Somone at Oracle believes that 1000 = 0x400. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist