topic Re: Date Format in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Date Format

abdulazeez12 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:54:33 GMT

Hii All

I am writing a BDC which involves two date fields. I want to populate the date fields depending upon the user's date format irrespective of what format is given in the data file. How to convert a date to the user's default systm format??

Re: Date Format

varma_narayana — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:57:48 GMT

Hi..

Call the FM CONVERT_DATE_TO_EXTERNAL

You can also check the FMs:

CONVERSION_EXIT_IDATE_OUTPUT

CONVERSION_EXIT_LDATE_OUTPUT

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Re: Date Format

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:34:13 GMT

Hi,

You can use CONVERT_DATE_TO_EXTERNAL.

Thanks,

Sriram Ponna.

Re: Date Format

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:04:48 GMT

Try the following:

  data:
    l_char10(10)        type c.

  write: sy-datum to l_char10."will apply user's edit mask
  write: / l_char10.

This should pick up the user's current settings (when they logged in) and apply it to the date.

Re: Date Format

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:12:41 GMT

use WRITE TO .................... USING EDIT MASK '__/__/____'.

Sameer