Date format trouble

I have a data whose date format is like this:
Mon Jun 04 22:17:44 SGT 2007
I need to replicate that same format of data when I do a Select in my table:
select To_Char(sb.directory_listing_expiry_utc,'DY MON DD HH24:MI:SS YYYY') expiry_date from branch
My output is:
Mon Jun 04 22:17:44 2007
I can't seem to replicate that "SGT" in (Mon Jun 04 22:17:44 SGT 2007). How can I produced that SGT in my query?

Is your data stored in a DATE column? Or in a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE column? Assuming SGT is your time zone, you would need to have the data in a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE column in order for Oracle to know about, and thus be able to display, time zone information.
If your data is stored in a DATE column, you would have to insert the time zone information into the string that TO_CHAR generates, i.e.
SELECT TO_CHAR( date_field, 'DY MON DD HH24:MI:SS' ) || ' SGT ' || TO_CHAR( date_field, 'YYYY' )
Justin

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