Date format requirement

Hi,
9i environment.
I am trying to format a date to return from a query in this format: YYYYMMDDHHmmSS.ssss+/-ZZZZ
Right now I formated my query to look like this:
TO_CHAR( a.FINALIZED_DATE , 'yyyyMMddHHmiss' ) || '-0500' AS finalized_date
I need the ability to add the '-0500' on the fly depending on standard vs daylight savings.
My first attempt to resolve I attempted to use something like
select SESSIONTIMEZONE from dual;
with the formatting it looked like:
select substr(SESSIONTIMEZONE,0,3)||substr(SESSIONTIMEZONE,5,2) from dual;
This query return +0000 . It should return -0500 (and -0400 when not in daylight) for my time zone.
Further research pointed me to doing this:
ALTER SESSION SET TIME_ZONE = '-5:00';
What does this actually do in terms of referencing date/times in the fields? Will this have an adverse effect on my data since I been collecting data in its current form for so long?
Is there more elegant solution?
Thank you.
Scott Ross

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