SQL Developer 2.1.0.63.73 exports DATE as TIMESTAMP

Question

I believe this is a bug. When I export a table to an XLS file, the values contained in DATE columns are saved as if they were TIMESTAMP:
eg. 31-DEC-09 12:00:00 AM would export as 31-DEC-09 12.00.00.000000000 AM
Not really a huge deal until you try to import it back in, in which case you can't import a TIMESTAMP into a DATE column. First, you'll get an error about the AM/A.M. or PM/P.M. missing. You can't explicitly specify the date format during the import either as Oracle rejects it since it's not supported. The proper way is to cast it back to a date, but you can't do that through the import function.
Regardless, I think the export function should export DATEs according to the Date Format NLS settings but it is not.
If it makes any difference, I'm using the 64-bit Windows version of SQL Developer on Windows 7 64-bit with the Oracle 64-bit client.

Answer 1

Hi,
Not sure if this is something related to my previous problem.
My SQL Dev gives the correct date format on exporting to Excel, but fails on export INSERT statement
Vasan, one of the sql dev's team member, gave this workaround which solved my problem
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You can add the following in the sqldeveloper.conf to ensure that the driver doesn't report the column type of a DATE column as TIMESTAMP.
AddVMOption -Doracle.jdbc.mapDateToTimestamp=false
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as suggested in this thread
Re: 2.1 EA1: Problems on Date type columns
Hope this help,
Buntoro