Converting a text string to a date in Discoverer

I've got a problem with a discoverer report which is that an item is pointing to a field in the Oracle table which is named as a segment4. This appears to be a generic field which stores any type of data, as it is based on the result of a flex-field in the application, so you could have dates, text, numbers etc. The problem is that the dates are stored in the table back to front i.e. 2004/10/19 00:00:00 and I need to be able to convert the date values so they are in the format DD-MON-YYYY as is this is the format that we use for all our reporting. When I try to apply any kind of date function it doesn't seem to work because it's a text field. I've used SUBSTR to get the first 10 characters and then used it again to split into day, month, year and then concatinated the values into one field in the correct order. This works to a certain degree but still doesn't recognise the value as being a date because because it doesn't sort them in order i.e. 20-06-2007 would appear before 30-06-2005. I'm not sure whether Discoverer could fix the problem or whether it may something the DBA may have to apply to the table. Does anyone have any suggestions to how I can get around this problem?
Thanks.
Joanne Hulme, Bolton Council.

Hi,
You can use TO_DATE(segment4, 'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') in a calculation to convert the segment to a oracle date type.
You can then format the date in anyway you need.
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