Oracle SQL Developer history with wrong dates of execution

Question

I am running Oracle SQL Developer 4.0.0.13 (in French) and use the SQL History pane which is sometimes useful to retrieve unsaved queries and/or after a crash of the application (which happens quite a lot by the way).

One big problem though, the dates of execution - which I mostly use when looking for an old query are completely wrong.

As you can see :

1. Dates (in an apparent dd/mm/yy format) are way in the future sometimes
2. The tooltip above the selected date seems to give the exact date (in m/d/y format)

I believe it is about date formatting and maybe the SQLHistory file in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\SQL Developer\SqlHistory.xml, but I can't find any way to set this up.

Anyone has a workaround?

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug in 4.0.13. From the forum:

In SQL Developer Version 4.0.0.13 , the Timestamp is showing incorrectly in the SQL History window

SQL for today - 03-JAN-14 is showing with a timestamp of 01-MAR-14
Looks like the day and month have been reversed when formatting.

... with response form Jeff Smith:

All kinds of fun bugs there - they've been addressed for our next patch/release and the developer also tells me, if anything, the product should be faster and more responsive in that area.

It works as expected in 4.0.1.14, so I can only suggest you upgrade to the current version. There are probably a lot of other bugs squashed now too; it might even crash less often...