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

I'm not an Oracle user (well, lately anyhow), BUT...

In most databases (and in precise language), a date doesn't include a time. Having a date doesn't imply that you are denoting a specific second on that date. Generally if you want a time as well as a date, that's called a timestamp.