INCORRECT DATE FORMAT

Question

Hello everybody,
I encounter the below mentioned error:
SQLLoader: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Jun 13 12:26:50 2009
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ORA-01821: date format not recognized
The control file is as follows:
LOAD DATA
INFILE *
INTO TABLE temp_sqlldr_test INSERT FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS
*(SDC CHAR, CREATED_DATE date "to_date(:CREATED_DATE, 'dd/mm/yy hh:mi:ss')")*
begindata
*4066684340,"20/05/2006 04:18:36"*
*4066684341,"20/05/2006 04:18:36"*
*4066731692,"20/05/2006 04:20:45"*
*4066750021,"20/05/2006 04:22:03"*
Can anyone tell me why the error is occuring ?
regards,
rossY_roCs

Answer 1

can you please elaborate on this..
As I am able to insert in both ways
I have no settings for NLS_DATE_FORMAT on os level
neither on database level
]$ echo $NLS_DATE_FORMAT
]$
NAME                    TYPE     VALUE
nls_calendar               string
nls_comp               string
nls_currency               string
nls_date_format           string
nls_date_language          string
nls_dual_currency          string
nls_iso_currency          string
nls_language               string     AMERICAN
nls_length_semantics          string     BYTE
nls_nchar_conv_excp          string     FALSE
nls_numeric_characters          string
nls_sort               string
nls_territory               string     AMERICA
nls_time_format           string
nls_time_tz_format          string
nls_timestamp_format          string
nls_timestamp_tz_format      string
both ways works
1)CREATED_DATE "to_date(:CREATED_DATE, 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')"
2)CREATED_DATE date "dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss"
Please update