Year getting reduced by 1, when querying date fields

Question

Hi, I am an Oracle retail support engineer. One of my clients logged an SR with the following:
When querying application table (shown below), the date comes out as corrupted (data snippet also shown below):
Query:
select create_date, to_char(create_date,'DD-MON-RRRR') from shipment_table;
Result:
CREATE_DATE TO_CHAR(CREATE_DATE,'DD-MON-RRRR')
08-JAN-10     08-JAN-2009
08-JAN-10     08-JAN-2009
08-JAN-10     08-JAN-2009
08-JAN-10     08-JAN-2009
08-JAN-10     08-JAN-2009
Any idea, what can cause this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Srinivas

Answer 1

Unfortunately, i'm not able to produce that error.
scott@ORCL>
scott@ORCL>select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
CORE    11.1.0.6.0      Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Elapsed: 00:00:00.11
scott@ORCL>
scott@ORCL>
scott@ORCL>with shipment
  2  as
  3    (
  4      select to_date('08-JAN-10','DD-MON-YY') create_date from dual
  5      union all
  6      select to_date('08-JAN-10','DD-MON-YY') create_date from dual
  7      union all
  8      select to_date('08-JAN-10','DD-MON-YY') create_date from dual
  9      union all
10      select to_date('08-JAN-10','DD-MON-YY') create_date from dual
11      union all
12      select to_date('08-JAN-10','DD-MON-YY') create_date from dual
13    )
14  select create_date,
15         to_char(create_date,'DD-MON-RRRR') char_date
16  from shipment;
CREATE_DA CHAR_DATE
08-JAN-10 08-JAN-2010
08-JAN-10 08-JAN-2010
08-JAN-10 08-JAN-2010
08-JAN-10 08-JAN-2010
08-JAN-10 08-JAN-2010
Elapsed: 00:00:00.04
scott@ORCL>
scott@ORCL>What is your Oracle version?
Regards.
Satyaki De.