ORA-01843: not a valid month when insert a date in oracle

Question

I'm trying to insert a row in oracle database and when i try with the date i have the errore in title. My date is DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS (example 25/01/2013 12:07:19 )

edit for better explain: i have an android application and want to insert a row in oracle database by php.
in Php i have:

$sqlString = sprintf("INSERT INTO GUASTI (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s) 
                      VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s')"
                      ,'guasto','tipo','data', 'localita', 'indirizzo_id', 'utente_id',
                       $array['guasto'], $array['tipo'], $array['data'], $array['localita'], $idUtenti, $idIndirizzo);

where $array['data'] is 25/01/2013 12:07:19

ps i know that there are security problems there but it is not a problem for now.

Answer 1

MM is for month. Use MI for minutes.

You have

HH:MM:SS

every time where the minutes are greater than 12 will trigger the error as you are telling Oracle to interpret them as months.

You are also using HH without am/pm (in your example you just used 12 ). If you are using a 24 format use HH24

DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS

or if you want the 12-hour format

DD/MM/YYYY HH:MI:SSAM

and then

02/01/2013 07:42:00am

Edit

You are inserting the date with the default format which is MM/DD/YYYY (american standard): 25 is not a valid month. You can use the TO_DATE function

'TO_DATE(' . $array['data'] . ', DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS)'

Answer 2

使用TO_DATE（'20 / 08/2012 09:00:00'，'DD / MM / YYYY HH24：MI：SS'）插入日期以获取更多详细信息，请参阅链接Oracle错误

Answer 3

Just for more info:

The following pattern letters are defined (all other characters from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z' are reserved):

Letter Date or Time Component Presentation Examples

G   Era designator  Text    AD
y   Year    Year    1996; 96
Y   Week year   Year    2009; 09
M   Month in year (context sensitive)   Month   July; Jul; 07
L   Month in year (standalone form) Month   July; Jul; 07
w   Week in year    Number  27
W   Week in month   Number  2
D   Day in year Number  189
d   Day in month    Number  10
F   Day of week in month    Number  2
E   Day name in week    Text    Tuesday; Tue
u   Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday)    Number  1
a   Am/pm marker    Text    PM
H   Hour in day (0-23)  Number  0
k   Hour in day (1-24)  Number  24
K   Hour in am/pm (0-11)    Number  0
h   Hour in am/pm (1-12)    Number  12
m   Minute in hour  Number  30
s   Second in minute    Number  55
S   Millisecond Number  978
z   Time zone   General time zone   Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z   Time zone   RFC 822 time zone   -0800
X   Time zone   ISO 8601 time zone  -08; -0800; -08:00