Re: date_format for Oracle
| From: | Steve Farmer | Date: | Thu, 12 Apr 2001 02:53:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: date_format for Oracle | ||
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Hi Joe,
Yes, I put this in as a standard statement immediately after i connect to the orcale database, it is also possible to put it in your init.ora file i believe
rgds
Steve
At 8:28 PM -0400 11/4/01, Joe Brown wrote:
Also consider the oracle sql ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT='YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS' or whichever format you prefer. This sets the default format returned when selecting a date column. -Joe "Steve Farmer" <hts@hts.com.au> wrote in message news:p04320402b6fa8a7ffc70@[203.28.219.179]...-- --------------------------------------------------- "Minds are like parachutes, they work best when open" Support free speech; visit http://www.efa.org.au/ Heads Together Systems Pty Ltd http://www.hts.com.au Email: hts@hts.com.au Tel: 612 9982 6767 Fax: 612 9981 3081Hi Richard, try TO_DATE or TO_CHAR , depending upon what you are trying to do, there are about 2 pages of formatting options for these functions. HTH Steve At 10:12 PM +0000 11/4/01, Richard Crawford wrote:This isn't strictly a PHP question, I suppose... but is anyone aware of a date_format function for Oracle comparable to MySQL's date_format() function?-- --------------------------------------------------- "Minds are like parachutes, they work best when open" Support free speech; visit http://www.efa.org.au/ Heads Together Systems Pty Ltd http://www.hts.com.au-- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.netEmail: hts@hts.com.au Tel: 612 9982 6767 Fax: 612 9981 3081-- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net