SAP NEWS-740-DATE TIME PROCESSING documentation, setup help and example usage

Date/Time Processing in Release 7.40

1 Weaker type check for time zones


ABAP_MODIFICATION_1 Weaker Type Check for Time Zones

A character-like data object is now sufficient in all operand positions where a time zone could previously only be specified with exactly the type TZNZONE or as a text field of the length 6. This concerns the statements
CONVERT [INTO] TIME STAMP and formatting of string templates and WRITE .