This can't be right - can't display time part of a DATE field.

Question

Hi all,
I have a table with one DATE field. It wasn't displaying times with the date,
so I searched and found a post telling how to change my NLS settings
in the Preferences.
I did this and it didn't change, so I thought, OK, I'll shut it down and restart.
Still no. So, I shut it down again, deleted all the records form my table, reinserted
them and then restarted SQLDeveloper.
Despite the fact that it has retained the change in NLS settings, it STILL*
doesn't display the time.
There is no problem in SQL*Plus. Quite frankly, this is poor.
Paul...

Answer 1

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Would there by anything else - I'm planning on rebooting the machine this afternoon - maybe
that'll do the trick? Will report back.Now, this is still wierd! Have rebooted machine.
I have two tables Sysstat_ext and Sysstat - both have fields M_Time (Measurement time),
which is VARCHAR2(15) in Sysstat_ext and DATE in Sysstat.
Sysstat_ext is an external table pointing at a .csv file where the dates are strings (obviously) in
the format DD-MM HH24:MM:SI (i.e. 01-09 13:55:02).
I then insert the data from Sysstat_ext into Sysstat - the conversion being performed thus:
INSERT INTO Sysstat
SELECT ROUND(TO_DATE  (Sysstat_ext.M_Time, 'DD-MM HH24:MI:SS'), 'MI') AS "Measurement Time",
<.. other fields deleted>If from SQL*Plus, I select M_Time from Sysstat
SQL> select M_Time from Sysstat;
M_TIME
2011 09 01 00:00:00
2011 09 01 03:20:00perfect
same for Sysstat_ext
SQL> select M_Time from Sysstat_ext;
M_TIME
01-09 13:55:02
01-09 14:00:01No year - the conversion during the insert obviously implicitly gives this year (good job that's what I actually want!).
I look at the dates in SQLDeveloper
Systat_ext: 01-09 13:55:02 <====== exactly what I'd expect
Systat: 01-SEP-11 <====== where has my time gone?
Anyone care to shed some light on this?
So, I redid the whole procedure removing the ROUND and also the AS "Measurement Time" (in case of artefacts)
INSERT INTO Sysstat
SELECT TO_DATE (Sysstat_ext.M_Time, 'DD-MM HH24:MI:SS'),
<... deleted...>
Still the same result - Sysstat_ext shows the time and Sysstat doesn't. I would have expected the
opposite. SQL*Plus still shows a time with Sysstat.
This is definitely a bug IMHO. Can I report it anywhere? As an aside, I originally thought that 3rd party tool
manufacturers such as Quest and Allroundautomations would be quaking in their boots with a
tool like SQLDeveloper (for free*) coming from the manufacturer of Oracle itself - I see now that
at the moment, they have little to worry about.
Paul...