Converting numeric date (seconds) to Oracle date

Hello all,
Not sure if this is the correct place for my question but here goes...
I am extracting data from an Oracle table in which the date/time is stored as a number (seconds since 1970). How can I convert this to an Oracle recognized date? I tried to extract the date as a number and then convert it using the localtime function in PERL but ran into other problems. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
David

Instead of writing PERL script if you write on a format trigger same coad (using Pl/SQL) it will work.

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