I think what your boss really means is 'julian' date.

Does he also want his database in mauve?

Try this:

select to_date(bdate,'j') from paam;

That said, the dates in your example are about 700 years
into the future.

Jared




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Hi to all!

We have an old app that manages something that my boss
calls: boolean dates.

He told me that exists an algorithm that manages dates
as a boolean format.

We have several tables in this form:

Note: The following table: PAAM
has the field BDATE defined as NUMBER.

sql> select bdate from paam
sql> where rownum < 6

BDATE
----------
728464
728434
728403
728495
728283

now, I need to convert that format to an
'understandable' format to get the old data and old
dates.

I'm looking (google-ing) for that subject but, without
luck.

any ideas? help?, pls...

Thanks in advance

Regards!
JL


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