Oracle's default date format is YYYY-MM-DD, WHY?

Question

Oracle\'s default date format is YYYY-MM-DD. Which means if I do:

 select some_date from some_table

...I lose the time portion of

Answer 1

Most of the IDE you can configure the default mask for some kind of data as date, currency, decimal separator, etc.

If your are using Oracle SQL Developer:

Tool > Preferences > Database > NLS

Date Format: YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS