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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Formatting Dates

For a complete list of the format elements you can use when formatting dates in output, see Table D-1. That appendix also contains a variety of examples illustrating the use of the date format elements, as well as a summary of time zone identifiers.

Use the date format elements listed in Appendix D in conjunction with Oracle’s built-in TO_CHAR function to convert date values to character strings. For example:

SQL> SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'dd-Mon-yyyy hh:mi:ss PM')
  3    FROM dual;

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD-MON
-----------------------
13-Dec-1999 09:13:59 PM

When used with the ACCEPT command, a date format string requires the user to enter a date in the format specified.

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