Oracle: Current date in the specified session time zone

Last update on October 24 2025 11:30:48 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Oracle Datetime: Exercise-3 with Solution

Write a Oracle SQL statement to get the current date in the specified session time zone.

Sample Solution:

Oracle Code:

ALTER SESSION SET TIME_ZONE = '-8:0';
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS';
SELECT SESSIONTIMEZONE, CURRENT_DATE FROM DUAL;
ALTER SESSION SET TIME_ZONE = '-9:0';
SELECT SESSIONTIMEZONE, CURRENT_DATE FROM DUAL;

Output:

  	SESSIONTIMEZONE	CURRENT_DATE
1	-08:00	2/24/2021 3:31:46 AM

  	SESSIONTIMEZONE	CURRENT_DATE
1	-09:00	2/24/2021 2:31:46 AM

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