What is NLS_DATE_FORMAT set to?

Axton Grams

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Jerry Niman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ARS 6.00.03 patch 22
> Oracle 9.2.0.1.0
> Solaris 8
>
> I am attempting to set a Date field (not a date/time field) in a SET
> FIELDS action within
> a filter from the content of a character field on the same form.
>
> If the character field contains "25/03/07" the date field is correctly set
> to 25 March
> 2007.
>
> However if the character field contains "25/03/2007" the date field is set
> to 25 March
> 2020, ie the filter only sees the first two digits of the year in the
> character
> representation of the date, and defaults the century to "20".
>
> the ARDATE environment variable is %d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S
> the ARDATEONLY environment variable is %e %B %Y
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
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