title: Converting a XSD date xs:dateTime to an Oracle Date
body: <p>I need to convert a date from this format:</p>
  
  <p><strong>2002-10-10T12:00:00-05:00</strong>
  (xs:dateTime as defined in XML)</p>
  
  <p>to an <strong>Oracle date</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>I'm used to using this in PL/SQL: to_date('date here', 'yyyymmdd'), is there a way to convert this while keeping the time zone info?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>