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GET TIME STAMP

Short Reference

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax


GET TIME STAMP FIELD time_stamp.

Effect

This statement creates a POSIX UTC time stamp from the system time and system date in AS ABAP and assigns it to the variable time_stamp.

time_stamp expects a variable of the data type TIMESTAMP or TIMESTAMPL from ABAP Dictionary, in accordance with ABAP type p with length 8 or p with length 11, with seven decimal places. Depending on the data type, the time stamp is created either in the short form or in the long form.


Note

The precision of the decimal places of the long form depends on the hardware (processor) of the application server. The maximum resolution of 100 ns is not always reached. On some platforms, only a resolution of milliseconds can be reached.


Example

Creates a time stamp. The time stamp must be formatted specially for the output, since a simple assignment would only produce a conversion from type p to string.

DATA: ts      TYPE timestampl, 
      output  TYPE string. 

GET TIME STAMP FIELD ts. 

output =  |{ ts TIMESTAMP = ISO TIMEZONE = 'UTC   ' }|. 
WRITE / output.

Exceptions


Non-Catchable Exceptions

  • Cause: The target field differs from TIMESTAMP or TIMESTAMPL with regards to type, length, and decimal places.
    Runtime Error: GET_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT