Does it have any relation to year 1752 adjustment for leap year?
Try following on unix ......
cal 9 1752
September 1752
S M Tu W Th F S
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
-Rachna
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> Don't believe me?? Try this:
>
> create table test(the_date date);
>
> insert into test values (to_date('10-05-1582','mm-dd-yyyy') );
>
> select to_char(the_date, 'mm/dd/yyyy') from test;
>
> What do you get? :-))
>
> Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
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