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GET TIME

Short Reference

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax


GET TIME [FIELD tim]. 

Addition

... FIELD tim

Effect

Without the addition FIELD, the system fields for date and time, sy-datlo, sy-datum, sy-timlo, and sy-uzeit, are set to the current value. The content of the system fields sy-dayst, sy-fdayw, sy-tzone, and sy-zonlo is not updated.


Note

Except for GET TIME, the system fields are updated after starting a program, after sending a screen, and after changing the internal session.

Addition

... FIELD tim

Effect

The addition FIELD is used to pass the current system time in the format "hhmmss" to the variable tim instead of sy-uzeit, and none of the system fields are updated. The return value of the statement has data type t. The following can be specified for tim:

  • An existing variable of the data type t or a variable to which the type t can be converted.
  • An inline declaration DATA(var), where a variable of type t is declared.