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GET TIME

Quick 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.

Example

Approximate runtime measurement. The statement GET RUN TIME should be used instead.

GET TIME. 
DATA(t1) = sy-timlo. 

DO 5000000 TIMES. 
ENDDO. 

GET TIME. 
DATA(t2) = sy-timlo. 

cl_demo_output=>display( t2 - t1 ). 

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.
  

Example

The example has the same function as the previous one.

GET TIME. 

DO 5000000 TIMES. 
ENDDO. 

GET TIME FIELD DATA(time). 

cl_demo_output=>display( time - sy-uzeit ).