Time Zone Format

In the preferences -> database -> NLS Parameters: Date Format, I have MM-DD-YY:HH24:MI:SS and the display works great. But what do I put where to have my date times display for the Central Time Zone?

OBIEE is converting the value out of the database.
For example, I have an invoice in the database as 4/1/2010. As mentioned before, invoice date and time dim are DATE format.
When I run the report as an OBIEE user with a profile setting of EST, it converts 4/1/2010 back to 3/31/2010. The month in time dim still shows April however.
If I override the data format to "Data Time Zone", then the conversion does not happen.
Maybe something is set wrong in the business model. We would want all users regardless of time zone to see the invoice as 4/1/2010.

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Time Zone Offset - Date Format question

I'm wondering if any one knows how to display the time zone offset of a date in the following format "[+-]HH:mm." More so... I need the date/time in the ISO 8601 format "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss[+-]HH:mm", where the last [+-]HH:mm is the hour representation of the offset. Here's some sample code...
SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
Calendar rightnow= Calendar.getInstance();
// So if system date/time is February 14, 2002 at 1:15:00 PM EST, this would produce "2002-02-14T13:15:00"
System.out.println("Current Datetime" + sdf1.format rightnow.getTime());
How can I get the timezone offset appended to my output in a [+-]HH:mm format. So, the above date needs to look like "2002-02-14T13:15:00-05:00". I can get the offset in milliseconds by doing the following:
int offset1 = rightnow.get(rightnow.ZONE_OFFSET) + rightnow.get(rightnow.DST_OFFSET);
But how can you get this representation into the [+-]HH:mm format?
thanks in advance,
stophman

Try something like this:import java.text.* ;
import java.util.* ;
static public String formatISO8601(Calendar cal) {
     * create ISO 8601 formatter for Calendar objects
    MessageFormat iso8601 = new MessageFormat("{0,time}{1,number,+00;-00}:{2,number,00}") ;
    // need to shove a date formatter that is cognizant of the
    // calendar's time zone into the message formatter
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss") ;
    df.setTimeZone(cal.getTimeZone()) ;
    iso8601.setFormat(0, df) ;
     * calculate the time zone offset from UTC in hours and minutes at the current time
    long zoneOff = cal.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET) + cal.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET) ;
    zoneOff /= 60000L ; // in minutes
    int zoneHrs = (int) (zoneOff / 60L) ;
    int zoneMins = (int) (zoneOff % 60L) ;
    if (zoneMins < 0) zoneMins = -zoneMins ;
    return (iso8601.format(new Object[] {
                                cal.getTime(),
                                new Integer(zoneHrs),
                                new Integer(zoneMins)
}

What format of regionName will be supported when setting session time zone?

hi,
the following is from OracleConnection class
public void setSessionTimeZone(java.lang.String regionName)
throws java.sql.SQLException
Set the session time zone.
This method is used to set the session time zone. This method must be invoked before accessing any TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE data. Upon invocation of this method, the Jdbc driver sets the session timezone of the connection adnd saves the session timezone so that any TSLTZ data accessed via Jdbc are adjusted using the session timezone.
Parameters:
regionName - Oracle session time zone region name.
Throws:
java.sql.SQLException - if an error occurred.
Since:
9i
getSessionTimeZone
public java.lang.String getSessionTimeZone()
Obtain Oracle session time zone region name.
Returns:
Oracle session time zone region name.
Since:
9i
which regionName will be supported and in what format?
Thanks a lot!

Hello,
You should be able to use the values in
select * from v$timezone_namesor in
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28298/applocaledata.htm#i637736

TIME-ZONE date format..

Hi, I need to store/display the 'time-zone' along with date-time information into a date column. Does anyone know what date-format i can use for the time-zone.
Thank you very much for your help,
sanjana.

Hi Utpal,
Thanks a lot! However, we are using Oracle version 8i at our project..i dont think 8i has these new datatypes. Do let me know if you think of anything else for v.8i
Thanks very much,
Sanjana.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by UTPAL DHAR ([email protected]):
Hi Sanjana,
I guess Oracle 9i has a few new DATE Datatypes called :
TIMESTAMP Datatype
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE Datatype and
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE Datatype
You could use these datatypes to store/display the timezone along with the date-time information.
I hope this information is useful to you.
-Utpal Dhar<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Time Zone storage format

Hi,
what will be the field content if the time zone is stored (Attribute of 0BP_PARTNER in CRM) in an ODS. Will it be like EST or GMT+1 ????
Thank you,
Points will be rewarded

it depends on the application server time, In your case its the time zone of the CRM server and the format is HR:MN:SC
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System and user time zone*********************8
Time zone in BW reports

Access 2010 InfoPath Data Collection Export Fails Due to Date Format That Includes Time Zone

I created an Access 2010 database that has multiple data collection (InfoPath) forms that were generated from Access and have been in use for about 1.5 years. Starting in 2013 (for about a week now), the submitted data fails to Export due
to a "data type conversion error" with the date fields. Prior to 2013, the date string returned in the InfoPath form looked like this: "2013-01-07T00:00:00", but now it looks like this: "2013-01-07T00:00:00-05:00". The time zone is appended
to the string and it kills the Outlook Export feature.
To test this, I created a new database with one table and one date time field. I generated an InfoPath template and emailed it to myself. I entered the date into the template and submitted it (tried manually entering the date as well as
using the date time picker control - made no difference). The InfoPath template now contains "2013-01-07T00:00:00-05:00" and will not Export from Outlook to Access. I tried manually pasting the string into the Access table and it would take it,
but would show "1/7/2013 5:00:00 AM" in the date time field (which isn't correct either but at least it took). Note: This problem has appeared at my office (Win 7 with Office 2010), but my testing was done on my personal laptop using Win 8 with Office
2010.
It looks like Microsoft has created a bug and now all of my data collection forms are unusable. Any help will be appreciated.

Microsoft confirmed that the issue was introduced with MS12-066 as follows:
***Start Quote
We have been able to identify that this issue was introduced with the change made for the hotfix detailed in KB 2687395. This update was included in the security update MS12-066 when you installed KB 2687417.
2687395 Description of the InfoPath 2010 hotfix package (ipeditor-x-none.msp): August 28, 2012
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687395/EN-US
2687417 MS12-066: Description of the security update for InfoPath 2010 Service Pack 1: October 9, 2012
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687417/EN-US
Investigating workarounds I've only come up with using HTML forms or changing the datatype of the control to text.
***End Quote
My own testing also indicates that if you are using InfoPath with SQL Server, you may be able to change the Date/Time picker control in InfoPath to a Date only picker control (if the SQL Server data
type will support that).

How to change date format and time zone from the client.

In order to change time zone, you need to go Administration-> Access Management (Step 1), and select your name on the right (Step 2).
Then select Edit tab at the bottom of the screen, and change both Time Zone and Regional Setting.

Thanks for sharing, Agnes.

Report Time zone in Excel Template

Hi,
How can we display the TimeZone that is set in the BI Publisher Preferences. Is there anyway to display this timezone in Excel Template.
In RTF Template, 'm able to display it using ,
<?format-date:xdoxslt:sysdate_as_xsdformat();’dd-Mon-yy hh:mi:ss’?>, so whenever I change the Report Time Zone in BI Publisher , the output of RTF Template gets affected correctly.
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I found a way to display the parameter, but it shows the return value. Is there a way to show the display value as it is when submitting the report? For example i have a LoV as follows:
select test as display_value, 10 as return_value from dual and it is attached to a parameter. Then i define that parameter in the XDO_METADATA and display it to another sheet - it will display the return_value(TEST) ... Anybody knows how to output the display_value?
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Alexander.

Get Current Time in Eastern Time Zone

Hi,
I would like to fetch the current time but in ET timezone (and also i want to handle
daylight thing automatically).
So can anyone tell me on this .
Requirement is to fetch value in ET timezone even your db resides in India or Canada or Germany.
Regards,
Sandeep

You can use current_timestamp at time zone tz_offset('EST'):
SQL> set linesize 132
SQL> column ct format a45
SQL> column ctz format a45
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Berlin';
Session altered.
SQL> select current_timestamp ct, current_timestamp at time zone tz_offset('EST') ctz from dual;
CT                                            CTZ
11-JUL-08 10.20.53.002549 PM EUROPE/BERLIN    11-JUL-08 03.20.53.002549 PM -05:00
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET TIME_ZONE = 'Canada/Mountain';
Session altered.
SQL> select current_timestamp ct, current_timestamp at time zone tz_offset('EST') ctz from dual;
CT                                            CTZ
11-JUL-08 02.21.02.344091 PM CANADA/MOUNTAIN 11-JUL-08 03.21.02.344091 PM -05:00
SQL> SY.

TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE

Hi Team, will Import into a table I am getting the below error message
Error Message
Record 1: Rejected - Error on table MTN_BUNDLES_EXPIRY_MIG, column EXPIRY_DATE_T.
ORA-01840: input value not long enough for date format
The data client provide in .XLs file
2013-08-31 17:14:56
My Table Structure is
CREATE TABLE tmp_mtnuga_3g_expiry_mig
    MSISDN_V            VARCHAR2 (50),
    expiry_Date_t         TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE
    status_date_t          TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE
    GOT_STARTER_PACK_V NUMBER(10)
I am using 2 option to import into a table
First option using Toad ---> Import Table -- option here i am getting error like
The format is not matched.
Second option using SQL Loader-->
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'D:\ss\TT-Projects\Customer Apps\Client Dump\3GBundle.csv'
BADFILE 'D:\dd\TT-Projects\Customer Apps\Client Dump\3GBundle.bad'
DISCARDFILE 'D:\dd\TT-Projects\Customer Apps\Client Dump\3GBundle.dsc'
INTO TABLE tmp_mtnuga_3g_expiry_mig
INSERT
(MSISDN_V,
EXPIRY_DATE_T,
STATUS_DATE_T,
GOT_STARTER_PACK_V
Please guide me how solve the TimeStamp

Check Part II SQL*Loader I can't remember when I last used it (being server side I use External Tables), but it should turn out something like
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'D:\ss\TT-Projects\Customer Apps\Client Dump\3GBundle.csv'
BADFILE 'D:\dd\TT-Projects\Customer Apps\Client Dump\3GBundle.bad'
DISCARDFILE 'D:\dd\TT-Projects\Customer Apps\Client Dump\3GBundle.dsc'
INSERT INTO TABLE tmp_mtnuga_3g_expiry_mig
fields terminated by ',' optionally enclosed by '"'
(MSISDN_V,
EXPIRY_DATE_T char "to_timestamp_tz(:EXPIRY_DATE_T,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:sstzh:tzm')",
STATUS_DATE_T char "to_timestamp_tz(:STATUS_DATE_T,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:sstzh:tzm')",
GOT_STARTER_PACK_V
you must adjust the mask to match your data
Regards
Etbin

Time Stamp format from file problem

Hey there,
I have a pretty peculiar problem. I'm working on two PCs right now, one is my private laptop running on Windows 8, and the other one the PC at my workplace, running on Windows XP, but on the same version of LabVIEW. I use this method to save the time and date to a tab delimited .txt file. Then later, with another VI, I read the date and time written to file to reconstruct the time stamp. I've noticed that dates written to file from my workplace differ from the dates written from my private PC: in Windows XP, there are "-" separating the day, month and year. In Windows 8, it's "/". There are other differences (see pictures). So naturally, when reading from file using my VI, I can only read on my private PC files (or at least dates) written on my private PC and vice versa, I can't read files written on my private PC on my workplace PC. Can anybody tell me why there's a difference in format, or how to write the date uniformly so I can read it on any PC, or how to read both formats?
So this is the method I use for writing the time and date (the subVI only inserts a certain number of TAB characters).
This is what it looks like on Windows 8
This is what it looks like on Windows XP
This is the VI (attached) I use to read the time stamps (the first row actually contains the time stamp in HH:MM: SS format for a whole bunch of measurements).
Have a nice day.
Solved!
Go to Solution.
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I would suggest using the ISO-8601 UTC format.
The only limitation is that the string value is in reference to GMT.
The conversion of the string back to a timestamp will present the date/time on your front panel indicator as local time.
https://lavag.org/topic/15034-timestamp-support-for-format-into-string-scan-variant-from-string-stri...
Now is the right time to use %^<%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%3uZ>T
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Adobe Acrobat Pro can't handle time zones?

I normally work in Texas, but at the moment I am in San Francisco. I have updated the time zone on my Mac OS X 10.6.4 system accordingly. When I attempt to certify a PDF using Acrobat Pro 9.3.3, my digital signature (that I just created on the PDF) is considered invalid by Adobe Acrobat because it "appears to be in the future."
As best as I can explain it, here's what appears to be happening:
My computer is set to Pacific Time Zone. It's 11:44 AM PDT
I digitally certify a PDF.
The Signature Properties say the date of signature is 2010/07/28 13:44:36 -05'00'.
The timestamp included with the signature is dated 2010/07/28 13:44:36 -05'00'
For some reason, Acrobat Pro thinks that the signature is invalid because it appears to be in the future. Why
isn't Acrobat Pro smart enough to handle time zones?
I'm uncertain as to how this error could be occurring. I am using a timestamp server (http://tsa.starfieldtech.com) to timestamp my digital signature. There doesn't appear to be any preference in Acrobat for time zone support, so it must be determining the local time from the system clock, but without the context of timezone.

Hi Sasha,
Was Acrobat running when you reset the system time? If so the original system time (in reality the GMT offset) was loaded into memory at launch and didn't get reset when you modified the System Preference. Acrobat should be able to pick up the new GMT offset, see you are at -7:00 (PDT) and make the changes accordingly.
As you might have noticed, when it comes to digital signatures, all of the times are in "Generalized Time Format". A lot of people mistake this for "European Time" because the month doesn't come first, but this is an ISO standard where the time starts with the year.
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How to display the Date Time using the System Time zone

Friends,
Can anyone help me with below scenario..
I have to display Date Time on a jsff page, This value associated to one of Transient View object populated from the database.. Is there any way I can handle on the screen to display the same date /time bassed on the system time zone ?
I know one way how we can handle it.. while populating to View object we can set the time based on the system time zone.. but it would be easy and simple if there is any approach I can use on UI layer itself..
thanks

I don't understand why this display doesn't pay attention to the date/time format settings that are set in the language and text prefs.
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Problem in Date time Zone parsing

Hi Guys,
I want format of String of time whic have time zone also. But how can i validate weather my date is correct or not .
This is i am doing because of Auto grow up problem in SimpleDateFormat.
For example : If i am parsing "2.00 AM GMT" as per mask "h:mm a z" should be correct if after format output is "2.00 AM GMT"
but if i am trying "15.00 AM GMT" as per mask it should be invalidated because after format it will return "3.00 PM GMT" this is also working as per my expectaion
But When i changed the Timzoe mask from GMT to PDT it get again fails
suggesiotn for resolving this isse willl be appreciated
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.SimpleTimeZone;
public class checkDates {
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          TimeZone dtz = (TimeZone) TimeZone.getDefault();
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          String l_id =TimeZone.getTimeZone(getTimeZone).getID();
          SimpleTimeZone l_simpleTimeZone = new SimpleTimeZone(l_rawOffset, l_id, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
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          return TimeZone.getTimeZone(getTimeZone).getID();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          // String aMask = "MM/dd/yyyy";
          String aMask = "hh:mm a z";
          String newEffDate = "15:00 AM GMT+03:00";
          String timeZoneId ="";
          SimpleDateFormat mydf = new SimpleDateFormat(aMask);
          if(aMask.indexOf("z")>0){
               if(newEffDate.length()>aMask.indexOf("z")){
                    timeZoneId = getTimeZoneId(newEffDate.substring(aMask.indexOf("z")));
                    System.out.println(newEffDate + " Time Zone id = ["+timeZoneId+ "]");
                    mydf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZoneId));
          Date date = null;
/*          System.out.println(System.getProperty("user.timezone"));
          System.out.println(TimeZone.getDefault().toString());
          System.out.println(mydf.getTimeZone().toString());     */
          try {
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               System.out.println("\n\n\nDate is working -\nInput " + newEffDate);
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               if (!mydf.format(date).equals(newEffDate)) {
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          } catch (ParseException pe) {
               pe.printStackTrace();
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}

There's a setLenient method you can use.

Conversion mapping is losing time zone data during daylight saving time

We have a problem with conversion of Calendars to timestamp with timezone for the last hour of Daylight Saving Time (e.g. 01:00 EDT - 01:59 EDT) where it is being interpreted as Standard Time which is in reality 60 minutes later.
We've written a JUnit test case that runs directly against TopLink to avoid any issues with WAS and its connection pooling.
The Calendar theDateTime comes from an object called TimeEntry which is mapped to a TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE field using conversion mapping with Data Type TIMESTAMPTZ (oracle.sql) and Attribute Type Calendar (java.util).
We are using:
Oracle TopLink - 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.0.0) (Build Patch for Bugs 5145690 and 5156075)
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
Oracle JDBC driver Version: 10.2.0.1.0
platform=>Oracle9Platform
Execute this Java:
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm z");
TimeZone tzEasternRegion = TimeZone.getTimeZone("US/Eastern");
Calendar theDateTime = Calendar.getInstance(tzEasternRegion);
theDateTime.setTime(format.parse("10/29/2006 01:00 EDT"));
Persist to the database and execute this SQL:
SELECT the_date_time, EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_REGION FROM the_date_time), EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_ABBR FROM the_date_time), EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_HOUR FROM the_date_time)
FROM time_table WHERE time_table_id=1
This provides the following results:
THE_DATE_TIME EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_REGION FROM the_date_time) EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_ABBR FROM the_date_time) EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_HOUR FROM the_date_time)
29-OCT-06 01.00.00.000000 AM US/EASTERN US/Eastern EST -5
The wrong time zone is in the database. It should be EDT -4. Let's test the SQL that should be generated by TopLink. It should look like the following.
Execute this SQL:
UPDATE time_table SET the_date_time = TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ('10/29/2006 01:00 US/Eastern','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI TZR') WHERE (time_table_id=1)
SELECT the_date_time, EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_REGION FROM the_date_time), EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_ABBR FROM the_date_time), EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_HOUR FROM the_date_time)
FROM time_table WHERE time_table_id=1
This provides the same results:
THE_DATE_TIME EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_REGION FROM the_date_time) EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_ABBR FROM the_date_time) EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_HOUR FROM the_date_time)
29-OCT-06 01.00.00.000000 AM US/EASTERN US/Eastern EST -5
Now, execute this SQL:
UPDATE time_table SET the_date_time = TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ('10/29/2006 01:00 EDT US/Eastern','mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI TZD TZR') WHERE (time_table_id=1)
SELECT the_date_time, EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_REGION FROM the_date_time), EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_ABBR FROM the_date_time), EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_HOUR FROM the_date_time)
FROM time_table WHERE time_table_id=1
This provides better results:
THE_DATE_TIME EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_REGION FROM the_date_time) EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_ABBR FROM the_date_time) EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_HOUR FROM the_date_time)
29-OCT-06 01.00.00.000000 AM US/EASTERN US/Eastern EDT -4
The correct time zone is now in the database. Let's test reading this with the following Java:
System.out.println("cal= " + theDateTime);
System.out.println("date= " + theDateTime.getTime());
System.out.println("millis= " + theDateTime.getTimeInMillis());
System.out.println("zone= " + theDateTime.getTimeZone());
This provides the following results:
cal= java.util.GregorianCalendar[...]
date= Sun Oct 29 01:00:00 EST 2006
millis= 1162101600000
zone= sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="US/Eastern",...]
The TimeZone object is correct since we are using the US/Eastern regional time zone, but the millis are wrong which makes the time EST instead of EDT. The millis should be 1162098000000.
The conversion from java.util.Calendar to TIMESTAMPTZ loses the actual offset when setting to a regional time zone. It can maintain this info by specifying it explicitly.
The conversion from TIMSTAMPTZ to java.util.Calendar also loses the actual offset even if the correct offset is in the database.
Has anyone else encountered this conversion problem? It appears to be a conversion problem in both directions. I know that the Calendar is lenient by default and will assume Standard Time if time is entered during the repeated 1 o'clock hour at the end of Daylight Saving Time, but the Calendars we are using are explicit in their time, so this would be classified as data corruption.
Nik

Opened an SR. Looks like there is a problem with conversion either in TopLink or in JDBC.

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