That's funny :) Except if Arizona is using those data types and needs to calculate the time a flight will take between destinatins... It needs to know when and how much and keep it's data accurate. BTW Kabul is 10.5 off GMT, No DST, but who cares, they're cuckoo, (as in strange, very unconventional... hmmn wait that's me... but then again at least I'm not living in one of the few countries left in the world that doesn't switch on the hour). Joel Patterson Database Administrator joel.patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx x72546 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:59 AM To: wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gkatteri@xxxxxxxxxxx; Mark Strickland; John.Fedock@xxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle and DST changes On 01/23/2007 11:52:37 AM, William Wagman wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been looking at the Metalink notes and am not clear I understand > when it becomes necesary to upgrade the clients. If one is only using > the networking pieces of the clients and sqlplus is it going to be > necessary to upgrade the client in that case. I guess the general > question is, what client pieces will require the upgrade? > You should move to Arizona, it doesn't have DST. It has plenty of daylight as it is, and it is one of the few states that doesn't implement DST. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mladen-gogala.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l