Problem in converting varchar to timestamp

Hi all,
I'm having one varchar column which has data like,
2008-08-01T12:00:16.000000+00:00
i need to extract '2008-08-01 12:00:16' and put into an timestamp solumn.
How can this be done.
i tried the below query,
SELECT to_date((to_date((SUBSTR((REPLACE(TI,'T',' ')),1,20)),'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')),'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') FROM TI;
which is giving only '08-AUG-01'
How can i do this? Please help me in resolving this.
Thanks in advance,
Karthick

What? Why would you lose your time?
You are only losing it in your display because you are not specifying it correctly to display. Internally the date datatype always has a time though it defautls to 00:00:00 if you do not provide time information on the initial to_date.
Is the target table or variable data type a date or a timestamp (pontentially with time zone)?
Just format the character string into the expected time stamp format and use to_timestamp on it if the target is a timestamp.
From the SQL manual 10gR2
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP ('10-Sep-02 14:10:10.123000', 'DD-Mon-RR HH24:MI:SS.FF')
FROM DUAL;
TO_TIMESTAMP('10-SEP-0214:10:10.123000','DD-MON-RRHH24:MI:SS.FF')
10-SEP-02 02.10.10.123000000 PMHTH -- Mark D Powell --

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