May I just say DATES SUCK? or at least everyone's implementations of dates being different sucks... why can't we have a nice standard about? anyway, just needed to vent. Alan.- On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:35 AM, David Fitzjarrell <oratune@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS.FFF' > > is still an invalid format string. In timestamps the format would be > > 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSxFF TZH:TZM' > > But that still won't work; Wolfgang Breitling provided the simplest of > solution as compared to my convoluted attempt at confusion. :D > > > > David Fitzjarrell > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Gus Spier <gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* eugene.pipko@xxxxxxxxxxxx > *Cc:* "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > *Sent:* Thu, June 9, 2011 5:12:12 PM > > *Subject:* Re: date format mask? > > Ooops! I should have checked: that format string should be > 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS.FFF' > > Sorry, > > Gus > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Gus Spier <gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Will TO_DATE() not work? >> >> TO_DATE(l_amazon_date, 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH24:MI:SS.FFF') >> >> r, >> >> Gus >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Eugene Pipko >> <eugene.pipko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am getting this value back from Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/> and >>> wonder if it can be processed in Oracle? >>> >>> >>> >>> <LastUpdateDate>2011-05-24T23:21:30.000Z</LastUpdateDate> >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Eugene >>> >>> >>> >> >> >