Well, not realy coz instead of sysdate there is number of seconds.
select to_char(sysdate,'hh24') || ' hours ' || to_char(sysdate,'mi') || ' minutes ' || to_char(sysdate,'ss') || ' seconds ' from dual /
something like this won't work??? Raj -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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