Thanks for your response. I need to get international time zones in 3 letter format, something like EST,CDT ....etc. On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:40:01 +0100, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Sami > > >We have to store all the date/times in GMT format. Is there aeasy way > >to get db timezone without using java program in 9i? > > SQL> select dbtimezone from dual; > > DBTIME > ------ > +01:00 > > HTH > Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l