For what I can recall, there was an "adjustment" in 1582 in the calendar to make it fit with the reality. They introduced the leap years and the cut 10 days in october 1582. I think they went from october 4 to october 15.

At 10:19 2002-11-22 -0800, you wrote:
It must have converted the date to metric.

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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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CSX Midtier Database Administration
Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com!

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efficient of you.


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