topic Re: SY-DATLO in Application Development and Automation Discussions

SY-DATLO

Former Member — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:59:48 GMT

We have a problem who occurs on weekend period. We have used debug to find out that the field value of sy-datlo was the source of problem. On Saturday and Sunday the value of the field sy-datlo is set to next Monday. How can this append.

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Re: SY-DATLO

RichHeilman — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:27:04 GMT

Is your time zone set up correctly?

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Field:SY-DATLO

Definition

Local date, based on the local time zone of the user.

Notes

In the following cases, it is not possible to calculate the local date:

The time zone is not maintained in the user master record

The time zone in the user master record is invalid

Time zones are not active (table TTZCU).

If any of these cases occurs, the system date (SYST-DATUM) is returned.

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Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: SY-DATLO

Former Member — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:36:21 GMT

Where did this happen? Is it a job that failed or is it some program that failed?

SY-DATLO is local date, based on the local time zone of the <b>user</b>. If something goes wrong with this, it is the timezone.

But the way you described, it looks like you are having this problem in a job, and it looks like the job is running only on weekdays based on calendar. If this is the case, check the job definition. There should be a calendar used there and that calendar might have Saturdays and Sundays marked as holidays.

Please give us some more information as to where you see this problem.

Srinivas

Re: SY-DATLO

Former Member — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:14:59 GMT

See OSS 481835 . It has a lot of info which will help you .

Also on Sunday ( for some time period) it may be possible that SY-DATLO points to Monday , depends on logon user and his time zone. But saturday is something

which is strange .

Cheers