I am using SQL Developer as a client for an Oracle 11G RAC. The database server is set to Pacific Daylight Timezone (PDT) and when I query sysdate in sqlplus, it always shows the PDT time. But in SQL Developer it displays time as GMT -4.
The system date on the system where SQL Developer is running is also set to PDT, even if I changed from Central timezone. I tried to add this parameter to the SQL Developer configuration files:
AddVMOption -Duser.timezone=GMT-7
But I continue to see the following results:
From SQL Developer:
select to_char(current_date,'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS'), to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS'), sessiontimezone from dual;
CURRENT_DATE SYSDATE SESSIONTIMEZONE
09-AUG-13 12:57:11 10-AUG-13 03:57:11 -07:00
From sqlplus:
SQL> select to_char(current_date,'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS'), to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS'), sessiontimezone from dual;
TO_CHAR(CURRENT_DATE,'DD-MO TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD-MON-YYH
SESSIONTIMEZONE
09-AUG-13 12:55:11 09-AUG-13 12:55:11 -07:00
Anyone knows how to have the same output as generated by sqlplus?
I have to schedule jobs in a production environment and I guess it is better to use sysdate instead of the current_date.