ORACLE Casting DATE to TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE WITH OFFSET

Question

I need to cast a DATE value in a query to a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, but currently I\'m getting the TimeZone Region (\'Europe / Paris\') which is not valid to be used by EF.

Answer 1

You can cast the DATE to a TIMESTAMP, then use FROM_TZ to convert this timestamp to a timestamp with time zone:

SQL> SELECT from_tz(CAST (SYSDATE AS TIMESTAMP), '+01:00') tz FROM dual;
TZ
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07/03/14 09:47:06,000000 +01:00