XML dateTime type with timezone info.

Question

Has anyone have problem FTPing xml that conforms to a xml schema with dateTime type?
This is the format of standard XML dateTime type:
"2003-12-17T09:30:47-05:00"
I used the Oracle timestamp datatype, but oracle rejected the dateTime of XML with the error message
"ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string."
I have altered the database to use timezone information:
// For eastern time zone.
alter DATABASE SET time_zone = 'Etc/GMT-5';
and use the native oracle datatype
"TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE"
but still doesn't work. I also changed the XML time data to "2003-12-17 09:30:47-05:00", still no good.

Answer 1

I tried couple formats, they all seem to need the "T" in between date and time. If I don't have the "T", I get the error message "ORA-01861: literal does not match format string"
If I use the following input I get the error message
"ORA-31041: Property CreateDate: Memory type (180) not compatible with database type (121)"
"2003-12-11T21:30:47.0"
"2003-12-11T21:30:47.000000"
"2003-12-11T21:30:47.000000000"
"2003-12-11T21:30:47000000"
"2003-12-11T21:30:470000"
If I use the following I get error message "ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string"
"2003-12-11T21:30:470000-04:00"
"2003-12-11T21:30:47.000000-05:00"
"2003-12-11T21:30:47.0-05:00"
It leads me to think that "2003-12-11T21:30:47.000000"
is the picture(mask) used by the database. But it has extra "T" in it, and oracle doesn't understand the datatype. Maybe there are two validation going on? one from schema and another during insertion to database? Schema requires "T", but database doesn't understand "T"?
Am I in the right track?
Do you know how do I query the mask used?
Thanks,
--Benjamin