topic Re: CONVERT_DATE_TO_INTERNAL in Application Development and Automation Discussions

CONVERT_DATE_TO_INTERNAL

Former Member — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:33:07 GMT

Hi Friends

This FM CONVERT_DATE_TO_INTERNAL converting date from DDMMYYYY to YYYYMMDD

eg if i give 31.01.2013 ddmmyyyy it will return 20130131 yyyymmdd

but while resolving one issue in program i find that date is already converted to 20130131 before passing to this FM and as a output its

giving error specify valid date

from selection screen date is coming in 31.01.2013 format as per requirement that is correct.

now before passing to this FM how can we check that date is already conveted or not ?

Regards

Meeta

Re: CONVERT_DATE_TO_INTERNAL

RaymondGiuseppi — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:40:25 GMT

(Considering this question as a conversion-exit question and not a forbidden date question...)

Look on documentation on external and internal format of date. As your select-options field is defined as a date, it appears at screen with user/country format, but internally can be considered as YYYYMMDD format always.

Look at FM like DATE_CHECK_PLAUSIBILITY, but first use search tool on date format at scn, there are already many, many threads, and everything should have been solved since Y2K.

Regards,

Raymond