How to convert varchar to timestamp

in the db , i have a column indtalledDate with datatype varchar-- and value is like 'Thu Dec 20 07:33:20 PST 2012'. Now i need to convert this to timestamp format-->20-DEC-12 07.47.49.463000000 AM . how can i do?
can anyone pls help???

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hi..Thanks for the quick reply. yes it worked. Now i do need to determine the day in month, quarter span, month span,year start date and year end date..
something like below:
to_date(add_months(trunc(installeddate,'q'),3)-1) - to_date(trunc(installeddate,'q')) as quarter_time_span
any idea how to do this?
You already have an idea of how to do that
select trunc(sysdate, 'yyyy') year_start,
   add_months(trunc(sysdate, 'yyyy'), 12) next_year_start,
   trunc(sysdate, 'q') quarter_start,
   add_months(trunc(sysdate, 'q'), 3) next_quarter_start,
   to_number(to_char(sysdate, 'dd')) day_in_month,
   trunc(sysdate, 'mm') month_start,
   add_months(trunc(sysdate, 'mm'), 1) next_month_start from dual
YEAR_START,NEXT_YEAR_START,QUARTER_START,NEXT_QUARTER_START,DAY_IN_MONTH,MONTH_START,NEXT_MONTH_START
1/1/2012,1/1/2013,10/1/2012,1/1/2013,20,12/1/2012,1/1/2013

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