Database Point in Time Recovery failed ORA-01841

Doc ID: 370500.1

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 05/10/2006 11:43:56
RMAN-11003: failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: alter database recover if needed
start until time 'MAY 10 2006 06:40:04'
ORA-01841 (full) year must be between -4713 and +4713 / +9999 and must not be 0

Cause

o NLS_LANG was not set (empty)

Solution
To implement the solution, please execute the following steps:

1. Set Environemnt Variable for example:

export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
echo $NLS_LANG