Get time zone abbreviations

How to get current time zone abbreviations from oracle?
Why “select EXTRACT(timezone_abbr FROM current_timestamp) TA
FROM dual;” Qury returns a ‘UNK’?

To have a valid timezone abbreviation you need to set a time_zone :
SQL> select current_timestamp from dual;
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
12/03/07 14:28:10,566726 +01:00
SQL> select EXTRACT(timezone_abbr FROM current_timestamp) TA
2 FROM dual;
TA
UNK
SQL> alter session set time_zone = 'cet';
Session altered.
SQL> select current_timestamp from dual;
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
12/03/07 14:28:23,702305 CET
SQL> select EXTRACT(timezone_abbr FROM current_timestamp) TA
2 FROM dual;
TA
CET
SQL> Nicolas.

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I'm trying to fgure out if anyone knows if Java provides time zone abbreviations (specifically) internationalized. We have a third party library that we are using to retrieve the abbreviated time zone display for the current locale (France). We get the correct time zone returned, "CEST" (Central European Summer Time), but as I understand it "CEST" is the english translation of that time zone and the French version is "HAEC" which stands for "heure d'été d'Europe centrale".
After debugging through that library it appears its just getting the Time Zone display from Java's rt.jar. After looking inside there at the TimeZoneNames_fr.java this is what I am seeing (keep in mind some of this is speculation)
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To me this looks like Java can return the internationalized version of the full time zone name, but we are going to get the english translation of the abbreviation.
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Time Zone (Short English): CEST
Time Zone (Long French): Heure d'été d'Europe centrale
Time Zone (Short French): CEST
I ran also ran the same code snippet using the ICU4J 4.6.1 locale SPI provider and here's the output.
Time Zone (Long English): Central European Summer Time
Time Zone (Short English): CEST
Time Zone (Long French): heure avancée d’Europe centrale
Time Zone (Short French): HAEC

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Below code is used for my application :
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=843
This web is related my issue. Here is :
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Hi Raiden -
RaidenMAC wrote:
Knoxville, TN : time zone offset should be -5. But my code resulted it as -4.
I think your code is giving you the correct offset for Knoxville on today's date. The offset for Eastern Standard Time (EST) is -5, but Knoxville is currently on Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), which is one hour later than EST. (-5) + 1 => (-4), which is what your code computed.
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timezone=Noumea
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This script is run AFTER physically disconnecting the iPod.
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is run BEFORE iPod is physically plugged in
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delay 0.5
click menu item "Date & Time" of menu 1
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the 'tab' key will then focus it
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Hi!
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Hi!
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I set date to Oracle using java.sql.Date.
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e.g. 28.06.2002, but in Oracle date is save as
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java.sql.Date hasn't time the Oracle set it time =
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And when I get date from Oracle I get
incorrect date. In SQL I don't use date masks. Maybe
solution is to use java.sql.Timestamp object (when
save date to Oracle) instead of java.sql.Date?The method setDate/getDate store a 'date' which is not the same as a 'date and time' for which setTimestamp/getTimestamp are used.
But if I save date at e.g. 01:00 clock and send e.g.
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Calendar: View all your events in a different time zone
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11534
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11531
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