Simple Oracle query: literal does not match format string

Question

I want to execute a simple function in Oracle. The signature is defined as follows:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION NewCaseListForValidation
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Answer 1

An alternative to the to_date() function is to use the ANSI standard format for DATE or TIMESTAMP literals:

DATE '2010-01-31'
TIMESTAMP '2010-01-31 21:22:23'

Date and time is always specified using ISO rules (YYYY-MM-DD and 24hour format for time)

This also works on a lot of other (standard compliant) DBMS.