How to use I18N in Oracle's queries

Hi guys. I want to know how I can internationalize the date conversion in my SQL queries, stored procs, and triggers (from here known as queries) in Oracle. Currently, what we do to convert chars to dates is "to_date('mm/dd/yyyy', dateParam)'. This have been working fine until recently when we decided to internationalize our app that the "dateParam" we passed to the queries does not necessarily follow the "mm/dd/yyyy" format anymore.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You should be using PreparedStatements and bind variables and then there would be no problem.
If not your database only supports a single time format.
So your java code must convert to that format first before calling the SQL. You can use SimpleDateFormat and specify the TimeZone when you call it.

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