WRITE MM/DD/YYYY not working

[Former Member]

I'm having the following issue:

When I try to use the statements:

WRITE p0002-gbdat TO w_hire-gbdat DD/MM/YYYY.

OR

WRITE p0002-gbdat DD/MM/YYYY to w_hire-gbdat.

I always get a date formatted as MM/DD/YYYY in w_hire-gbdat.

I tried changing my date parameter and the result was still the same.

p0002 is type dats 8 and

w_hire-gbdat is type char 10.

Any thoughts?

[Former Member]

I'm having the following issue:

When I try to use the statements:

WRITE p0002-gbdat TO w_hire-gbdat DD/MM/YYYY.

OR

WRITE p0002-gbdat DD/MM/YYYY to w_hire-gbdat.

I always get a date formatted as MM/DD/YYYY in w_hire-gbdat.

I tried changing my date parameter and the result was still the same.

p0002 is type dats 8 and

w_hire-gbdat is type char 10.

Any thoughts?

[Former Member]

Have you tried looking at your settings on your user id ? (Go on the menu path to System ->User profile-> Own data). Under the defaults tab there is a date format setting. Check that that is not set to MM/DD/YYYY.

[Former Member]

parameters: date1(8) type c default sy-datum .

data : dat1(4) type c,

dat2(2) type c,

dat3(2) type c,

out(10) type c .

dat1 = date1+0(4) .

dat2 = date1+4(2).

dat3 = date1+6(2).

concatenate dat3 dat2 dat1 into out separated by '/'.

write:/ out .

regards,

venkat.

[Former Member]

From the documentation

Option

... DD/MM/YYYY

Option

... MM/DD/YYYY

Effect

If f is a date field (type D), the date is output with a 4-character year as specified in the user's master record. Both of these formatting options have the same value.