RE: Negative/BC/BCE time

John Dorlon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.oracle.toad.free
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I was just playing with this in Delphi.  I found a way to get A.D. in front of dates, but when I throw a date at it before 1/1/0001, it doesn't show BC or AD.  I don't think you should rely on Toad to show you anything before 1/1/0001 in date format.  You should us TO_CHAR in your queries if you expect anything before that.



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Subject: [toad] Negative/BC/BCE time



Can we get an option to display the sign for years or BC/AD  or BCE/CE   options in time formats?

It's not often that I'm storing negative years, but when I do, it's quite confusing to not be able to tell the difference between 1000 BC and 1000 AD without converting to a string.
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