I forgot to mention before - if you want to check what the value of TZ was when the listener was started (I'm assuming Linux here), get the process ID of the tnslsnr process & then look in /proc/<process id>/environ Cheers, Phil 2012/2/28 Samuel Guiñales Cristobal <samuel.guinales@xxxxxxxxx> > > This will be due to the setting of the TZ environment variable when the > > listener was started - it'll probably differ from your current Unix > session > > TZ setting. > > Philip Jones thanks!, you put finish a great headache, really thanks, > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l