whine

Any suggestions on a Trac "whine" like bugzilla?

Has anyone implemented functionality (within trac or using external tools) to get the functionality of the bugzilla "whine"? (a report(s) run and the results emailed periodically - basically I want a weekly reminder sent to each assignee with a list of their open issues. ...

Oracle's default date format is YYYY-MM-DD, oh dear god, WHY???

Oracle's default date format is YYYY-MM-DD. Which means if I do: select some_date from some_table ...I lose the time portion of my date. Yes, I know you can "fix" this with: alter session set nls_date_format='yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'; But seriously, why isn't the above the default? Especially in a DBMS where the two primary time...