Your format is asking for the month instead of the minutes
>
> Hi all,
>
> I did a select sysdate from dual, and got 04:09:39 pm,
> but my machine system time is 4:47pm, which is right.
>
> SQL> select to_char(sysdate,'mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss am')
^^
should be mi
> from dual;
>
Pat
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