... two-tier applications where you want to display dates and times using the time zone of the client system. It is generally inappropriate in three-tier applications such as those involving a Web server, ... Web server, because data displayed in a Web browser is formatted according to the time zone of the Web server, not the time zone of the browser. (The Web server is the database client, so its ... Representing Date and Time Data2-26 Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals"Troubleshooting Y2K Problems in Applications" on page 2-29). For this reason, you...