TIMEZONE question on 10.2.0.1.0

Hi Experts,
Env: Sun Solaris 8
DB 10.2.0.1.0 -- Single instance
a) I did set env variable as TZ=UTC
b) When I check SQLPLUS from server, it is fine. i.e. It shows time in GMT
SQL> select to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual ;
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD-
14-MAR-2007 18:51:23
c) However, when I try from SQLPLUS client, it is NOT showing correctly.
What I mean, it is still showing LOCAl time.
SQL> select to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual ;
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD-
14-MAR-2007 12:59:08
d) We use LDAP for connectyions.
HOW TO FIX THIS?
Thanks for help
Regards
Natrajan

Get the current timezone
SQL> SELECT DBTIMEZONE FROM DUAL;
DBTIME
+00:00
Use the SET TIME_ZONE clause to set the time zone of the database. You can specify the time zone in two ways:
1.By specifying a displacement from UTC (Coordinated Universal Time--formerly Greenwich Mean Time). The valid range of hh:mm is -12:00 to +14:00.
ALTER DATABASE SET TIME_ZONE = '+02:00';
OR
2. By specifying a time zone region. To see a listing of valid region names, query the TZNAME column of the V$TIMEZONE_NAMES dynamic performance view.
SELECT TZNAME FROM V$TIMEZONE_NAMES
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My question is that has anyone else experienced a similar issue(or is this just specific to our environment)? Also is there a list of settings/preference you need to check for data integrity after an upgrade? Thanks!

I experienced an issue similar to this once. I don't know if it was exactly the same because it was a 4.5 to 5.x upgrade done a couple years ago, but it sounds like pretty much the same thing. I also tracked it down to a pref problem in the database. I had to manually fix the bad values, but that resolved the problem, and that was the only problem of that type I encountered. That doesn't mean you won't find anything else strange with your upgrade, but it seemed to be a strange isolated incident to me. I have done many upgrades since that time, and never encountered the problem again. I would suspect that if you have fixed all the database records that were affected by this, then you are probably OK.
DJ Dewey | VHA Inc. | [email protected]

Wls10.3.2: Why do we need to explicitly set -Duser.timezone

Hi All,
We are installed FMW 11g PS1 Weblogic 10.3.2 &Oracle Fusion Applicaton Runtime 11g on Oracle Linux 5.7 VM (running on Oracle Virutal Box / Host-only Network adapter) and created new weblogic domain using EM & JRF product templates and choose default options. (except choosing 'Production Mode')
While deploying our application we are getting "Caused By: java.sql.SQLDataException: ORA-01882: timezone region not found" while performing data base operations (retrieve date from Oracle Database 11g R2 using eclipse link)
Note:- DB schema have column with timezone set.
So, Issue got resolve after updating setDomainEnv.sh file with "-Duser.timezone='-05:00'" (CDT) for EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES.
In general, we didn't the update this properties for our systems.
Please let me know what want wrong with my setup (Linux installation - date & time settings/ Weblogic /Domain creation/Database time zone settings)?
Thanks,
Suresh

Unfortunately, there are many ways how various OSes setup a configuration to indicate what timezone it is using. The JRE assumes a certain way of how this is done and on many systems it is able to get the necessary info it needs to determine what the timezone is, but of course, it also gets it wrong sometimes, or in your case, it did not find what it was expecting.
To preempt your next question, what needs to be set? Well, I wish I knew the exact answer. I have several Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc.. systems, on most of them java is able to get the right timezone, but on some it is getting the wrong timezone, but as far as I can tell the timezone configuration on the ones that are wrong look just like the ones that are correct.

Report Scheduling. How to syncronize the GMT and the local server timezones

Hi everybody, I need to schedule reports using the Schedule tab on BIP, but I didn't still understand how the syncronization between my server's timezone and the GMT timezone works.....
I noticed that when I open the Report Schedules initial page, this is refreshed using the GMT timezone as follows:
Page Refreshed Monday, July 26, 2010 7:53 AM GMT
Actually I'm located in Athens (GMT+3)
I noticed that if I want to Run once a report, ONLY the GMT is took in consideration.
For example, I want to run a report at 11.30 (Athens timeone) where the time conditions are the following:
BIP time (GMT timezone): 08.00 AM GMT
server timezone: 11.00 AM (Athens time)
So, if I want to run a report at 11.30 AM (Athens time), I have to write in BIP (Run once) 08.30 AM, instead of 11.30, otherwise if I put 11.30, the report runs 3 hours and 30 minutes later instead of only 30 minutes !!! This is very frustrating....because it means that everytime I need to remember that there is a difference of 3 hours and if I want effectively....
I also set the Report Formatting Time Zone = GMT+03:00 to fill the gap between the GMT's timezone and Athens's timezone but it didn't work....
I found that the variable <xsl:param name="_XDOTIMEZONE">GMT</xsl:param> is set into the tmpl.xsl; I tried to change it (GMT+3 or GMT+03:00), I stop and restart the BIP server....but nothing...the BIP timezone is always GMT (as showed by th Page Refreshed date and time).
At the end my question is this: is there a way to modify the internal BIP timezone in order to fill the gap between this and the server timezone ?
In other words, I'd like to see the page refreshed with the server timezone (Athens timezone) and not the GMT timezone, in order to schedule reports thinking directly my local server timezone (and not think always to calculate how many hours is the difference).
This, I think is a common issue for everybody, but....I didn't find nothing in the forum....
If somebody found a workaround, every help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Alex

Good Morning Vetsrini,
I know that the "Report Formatting Time Zone" is used to set the timezone properly INSIDE the report...but my attention now is concentrated on the Scheduling...
As I mentioned before I'd like to find a way to syncronize the BIP timezone (based on GMT) and my local server timezone (Athens, GMT+2), and this I think it's possiblie only if I can modify the BIP timezone (GMT): instead to have GMT, I'd like to have GMT+2 in order to have the same time in both of systems.
I already tried to change the variable <xsl:param name="_XDOTIMEZONE">GMT</xsl:param> into the tmpl.xsl, but it didn't work....
I don't understand how all the others millions of BIP users who don't live in UK can use the scheduler keeping in mind always the gap between their local time and the GMT time set in BIP......
Do you have another hint or workaround ?
Thanks for your help
Alex

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