It is effectively independent of any specific string format. The first thing to grasp about the DATE type in Oracle is that its internal representation allows it to be displayed and manipulated in many different ways.
(For more background about TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL types, read Jonathan Gennick's Oracle Magazine articles "Datetime Datatypes Add Precision" and " Finding the Time in Between" (both published in the Nov.-Dec. The focus here will be on the DATE type, although much that applies to DATE also applies to TIMESTAMP.
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