Date calculation returns a decimal. Is this right?

Hi Folks,
Forgive me, for I am a newbie.
I'm trying to do a simple date calculation
select SYSDATE - TO_DATE('10/DEC/1986', 'DD/MON/YYYY') from dual
and the result is
"8147.62126"
Isn't the result meant to be a date? Since I am substracting a date from a date?
Thanks :)

You are not getting date. Its a number.
What you are doing is
geting the no of days between today and 10-dec-1986 in days/hours/min/seconds
sysdate has hours/mins/seconds
if you do
select trunc(SYSDATE) - TO_DATE('10/DEC/1986', 'DD/MON/YYYY') from dual
then you will get the difference in days.
Alvinder

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