Defaulting sysdate on save - no time component

Question

I have a date column (date_modified) in my table and i am displaying on form as date picker DD-MON-YYYY HH:MI. Users can not enter this but they can see it. When I save the record I have am setting the item like<br><br>P1_DATE_MODIFIED := sysdate;<br><br>and then the automatic update process puts it in. trouble is, it is going in without the time component. I have tried <br><br>P1_DATE_MODIFIED := to_date(to_char(sysdate,'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi'),'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi');<br><br>but no luck there either.<br><br> if i update the column in sqlplus using the sysdate or to_char to_date method then it does get the time component and it displays it in my form. I cant figure out why it loses it when inserting when the last thing i do before insert is convert it to the time format (i shouldn't even need to do that, sysdate should work fine)

Answer 1

Hi Victorp or any others,
I am also having a major problem of not able to store time component. I have a field called ":P61_WHEN_CREATED" in my form DISPLAY aS (Date Picker DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI) and I have a process after submit - Before computations and validations) to set the field value to sysdate as :
:P61_WHEN_CREATED := to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI');
and after submit after computations and validations I have another process to post the values into table as:
Insert into c_addendums (MECnum,WHEN_CREATED) values :P61_MECNUM, :P61_WHEN_CREATED;
But i am getting the error :
ORA-01830 date format picture ends before converting entire input string.
Can you please help me.
rgds,
Suma.