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[Dean Mah]

Seth Bienek writes:

> > Do you do anything with the time?  
> 
> The time is mucho importanto for sorting.. That's why I wanted to
> use GMT: in order to get consistent, relative, message times.  It
> can be stored in the same field as the date, right?

Yup.  Oracle only has one DATE datatype that stores everything.  You
may want/need to alter your session to get it in the timezone that you
require.  I think that it will default to the server's timezone.

Dean