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    How to see current time in America now?

    Hi All,
    I am in India and working with local timestamp.
    Now I want to the what time is there in America by a select query without doing any mathematical calculation.

    Thanks in advance.


    Prashant T.

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    How about...

    Code:
    select TO_CHAR(new_time(sysdate,'GMT','PST'), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH:MI:SS') FROM DUAL;
    ... don't forget to replace GMT with your time zone.
    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

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    how to find timezone?

    thanks for the reply.

    but tell me how to find the timezone.

    thnaks.

    Prashant T.

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    Do not use new_time, you will have a probem when there there will be timezone change from EST to EDT and back. Rather use systimestamp and get a gmt time , using offset from gmt which is not changing u can get a time in any timezone.

    This is gmt time:

    SELECT TO_CHAR(SYS_EXTRACT_UTC(systimestamp),'DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') into pGmtDate FROM DUAL
    One, who thinks that the other one who thinks that know and does not know, does not know either!

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    thanks for reply. It works.

    if we know timezone abbreciation then we can find out the time anywhere.
    Please can you give me the query by which I can get abbreviations also.


    Thanks again.
    Prashant.

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