I complained that I couldn't get the time from an Oracle date field. Joe Brown said:
This is not a PHP bug.
Consider setting NLS_DATE_FORMAT.
The manual states OCIResult() returns everything as a string.
NLS_DATE_FORMAT may not be appropriate for your needs.
There are quite a few places you can set NLS_DATE_FORMAT.
* Environment variables (or windows registry on win32)
* orclSID.ora
* on a per session basis; execute this statement after logon:
$cursor=OCIParse($connection,
"ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT='YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'");
OCIExecute($cursor);
OCIFreeCursor($cursor);
