RE: Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different instances.

2001-12-19 Thread Henry Poras
list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different instances. Well I say,   that is also the case on Tru64 as well.   How pedantic is UNIX ??   -Original Message-From: Brian McGraw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 19 December

Re: Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different instances.

2001-12-19 Thread Brian McGraw
Wel. I feel enlightened. And more secure! Now the Y1752 / Y1582 bugs won't bite me either! : ) "Schilling, Ben" wrote: > Oracle uses the original start date of the Gregorian calendar in October > 1582: > > 1* select to_date('04-OCT-1582'), to_date('04-OCT-1582')+1 from dual

RE: Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different instances.

2001-12-19 Thread Schilling, Ben
Oracle uses the original start date of the Gregorian calendar in October 1582: 1* select to_date('04-OCT-1582'), to_date('04-OCT-1582')+1 from dual devp> / TO_DATE('04-OCT-1582 TO_DATE('04-OCT-1582 04-OCT-1582 00:00:00 15-OCT-1582 00:00:00 Ben Schill

Re: Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different instances.

2001-12-19 Thread Stephane Faroult
Brian McGraw wrote: > > Speaking of the system clock, here's something interesting that I > stumbled across a few years back... > > Background: For those of you who may not know, the Julian calendar > was abandoned by England, in favor of the Gregorian calendar, in 1752 > because of date discre

RE: Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different instances.

2001-12-19 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Well I say,   that is also the case on Tru64 as well.   How pedantic is UNIX ??   -Original Message-From: Brian McGraw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 19 December 2001 16:16To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different

Mabye OT: Was Re: Different clocks for different instances.

2001-12-19 Thread Brian McGraw
Speaking of the system clock, here's something interesting that I stumbled across a few years back... Background:  For those of you who may not know, the Julian calendar was abandoned by England, in favor of the Gregorian calendar, in 1752 because of date discrepancies.  To facilitate this, Septe