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Thread: Formatting a char field to date

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    Hi,

    The time is stored in a varchar2 field as "1603", I would like to format it to display "4:03pm" in the output.

    I used the to_date function and I got this error:
    (ORA-01849: hour must be between 1 and 12).

    Please help.

    Thanks

    Mo
    Mo

  2. #2
    Join Date
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    Hi,
    select to_char(to_date('1603','hh24:mi'),'hh:miam') from dual;
    Ales
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  3. #3
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    Thanks a lot, that worked.
    Mo

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