That's converting hours to seconds. 60x60.
Shakeel
--- Ravindra Basavaraja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found a query to get the time 5 seconds less than
> the current time as
>
> select to_char(sysdate-5/(24*3600),'dd-mon-yyyy
> hh24:mi:ss') from dual;
>
> I am really not sure as to why 24*3600 is used for.
>
> Can anyone tell me why it is used.
>
> Thanks
> Ravindra
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