Appending date and time to file created in UTL_FILE

I am trying to create a log file of database (9i) updates using PL/SQL code and I am able to create a file using UTL_FILE utility and in file name I give name as 'log-'||sysdate||'.txt' and it successfully cerates log-22-NOV-05.txt file.
My problem is adding time to it. I declared a varibale ws_var1 and capture time in it by below statement.
select to_char(sysdate,"HH24:MM:SS') into ws_var from dual.
SO when I try to add this to file name as 'log-'||sysdate||'-'||ws_var1||'.txt' the file that gets created is just two number such as 02.txt, 34.txt etc.
I am not sure where the problem is but any help to create file name with date+time information is apperciated.
Thx

Why not just:
'log-'||TO_CHAR(sysdate, 'DD-MON-YYYY-HH24MISS')||'.txt'
SQL> select 'log-'||TO_CHAR(sysdate, 'DD-MON-YYYY-HH24MISS')||'.txt' from dual ;
'LOG-'||TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'D
log-22-NOV-2005-170813.txt
1 row selected.
SQL>

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