GET TIME STAMP FIELD

Basic form 6

GET TIME STAMP FIELD f.

Effect

Returns the time stamp in either short or long form. The short form consists of the current date and time. The long form contains date and time with seven decimal places for fractions of a second. This gives accuracy to 100 nanoseconds.

The target field f contains the global reference time UTC (Universal Time Coordination). This corresponds to Greenwich Mean Time, which was used previously.

f must have type P(8) for the short form, or P(11) DECIMALS 7 for the long form. In the ABAP Dictionary, you can make references to the data elements TIMESTAMP und TIMESTAMPL using a DATA ... TYPE ... statement.

Note

You cannot manipulate the time stamp in the same way that you can manipulate ABAP DATE or TIME types. The system contains other elements that convert the time stamp into date and time (accurate to one second) and output it.

The fractions of a second used in the long form are platform-dependent. The time on some platforms will only be accurate to one millisecond.

Example

DATA:
  s_tst TYPE timestamp,
  l_tst TYPE timestampl,
  tzone TYPE timezone.

GET TIME STAMP FIELD s_timestamp.    "short form
GET TIME STAMP FIELD l_timestamp.    "long form
tzone = 'UTC   '.                  "time zone

WRITE: / s_tst TIME ZONE tzone,
       / l_tst TIME ZONE tzone.

The short form might then contain the value 19980204163520, the long form, the value 19980204163520,1234560.

Exceptions

Non-Catchable Exceptions

Cause: The type, length or number of decimal places of field f does not correspond to the reference field.
Runtime Error: GET_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT
Cause: The operating system has passed a value greater than 10**6 to the part of the time stamp after the comma.
Runtime Error: MICROSECONDS_OVERFLOW

GET TIME

CONVERT TIME STAMP ....