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by mjbmitch 2385 days ago
The precision is likely the default of whatever instrument recorded the timestamps. At this point, however, having to use VARCHARs instead of some native representation of ISO 8601 is entirely the fault of Oracle. It has been a published standard for over 30 years and should be directly supported.
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> At this point, however, having to use VARCHARs instead of some native representation of ISO 8601 is entirely the fault of Oracle.

I wish I could blame Oracle. We're using Watcom SQL on a Sybase DB.