FromTime returns a Date from a time.Time Does the allocation inside, so easier to use.

Date is an OCIDate SQLT_ODT: 7 bytes http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Date The internal format is the following one: century + 100 year in the century + 100 month day hour + 1 minute + 1 second + 1 So in the previous example the date was 19-DEC-2007 at 22:35:10.