Friday, February 24, 2012

Timezones in Oracle

It might have been written umpteen times here and there, but it always manages to confuse me. So, here it is another time on the internet...


Datatypes
Timestamp/timezone datatypeWhat Oracle storesWhat Oracle displays
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONEYear, month, day, hour, minute, second, fractional second, and time zone displacement (HH:MI difference from GMT)Stored value
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONEYear, month, day, hour, minute, second, fractional second; does NOT store time zone information, but instead converts data to the database time zone and stores it w/o time zone informationConverts the stored data to the session's time zone before displaying


With due respect to - http://toolkit.rdbms-insight.com/tz.php

Thursday, February 2, 2012

And now.. a Solar Powered ubuntu laptop...

Nick Rutledge has conceptualized a thin laptop that runs Ubuntu, is beautiful and hopes to run on Solar power... isnt that a killer combination...

check out his concept here...

http://nrutledge.blogspot.com/p/ubuntu-laptop-concept.html