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Time Stamps in Release 4.0

When time stamps were introduced in ABAP in Release 4.0, special attention was paid to the following:

Making the time stamp meaningful to a user in his or her particular time zone

Making objects uniquely identifiable by their time stamp by guaranteeing a hight level of precision

You can generate a timestamp in an ABAP program using the new variant GET TIME STAMP FIELD f . It is always globally unique since it is not stored in local time, but always in UTC time ( Universal Time Coordination , previously Greenwich Mean Time ).
You can generate a time stamp with normal precision (to one second), or accurate to around one microsecond ( 1E-6 seconds).

To convert the time stamp to local time or to ABAP time and date format (data type T or D), use the following variants:

CONVERT TIME STAMP tst INTO [DATE|TIME] ...

and

WRITE tst TIME ZONE tz

.

See also:

Further Information About Time Stamps