Get only date without time in Oracle

Try to use to_char(pa.fromdate, 'MM.DD.YYYY'), and this will give you desired result

Usually one would simply truncate the datetime with TRUNC:

TRUNC(pa.fromdate)

This removes the time part from the datetime, so you get the mere date. Then in your application layer, you would care about how to display it.

For example you have a GUI with a grid. The grid displays the dates according to the user's system settings (e.g. Windows region settings), but the grid knows it's dates and can sort accordingly. For this to happen, you'd fill the grid with dates, not with strings representing a date.

If you want a fixed string format (e.g. in order to write into a file), you can use TO_CHAR instead:

TO_CHAR(pa.fromdate, 'dd.mm.yyyy')