Very tricky Robert. ;^)
Spoiler Alert below!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After some time to think about this, I did a quick search on Google and realized that
this is when the calendar changed from Julian to Gregorian.
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On 11/22/2002 12:55 PM, Freeman, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
>Oracle Database Architect
>CSX Midtier Database Administration
>Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com!
>
>Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package.
>How
>efficient of you.
>
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