regarding conversion of date in abap

[Former Member]

Hi All,

while running my application I am not getting the date of birth in correct format.

say for example i require the correct output i.e DOB as 01.01.1970 but i am getting the wrong output in this field as 19700101.so if there is any function module or any way to do the date conversion then give it i.e. how can I convert the date from string to date format.If any one knows the solution then revert me back.

Thanking you All in advance.

[former_member188685]

where are you doing this ..?

what ever format you are getting it is in YYYYMMDD format.

are you facing this problem in Screen fields or Program output.

Or while storing it to Database..?

[Former Member]

say your user setting format is mm.dd.yyyy

now, data: v_date like sy-datum.

move the data to V_date.

write:/ v_date.

as your user setting format is mm.dd.yyyy it displays as 01.01.1997 although internally it stores as 19970101

[Former Member]

Hi,

To avoid that problem and you always want to write date in mm.dd.yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy format just write like

WRITE <date_variable> DD/MM/YYYY. or

WRITE <date_variable> MM/DD/YYYY.

Hope this will help you,

Regards,

Aswini.

[Former Member]

HI anand,

There is no such FM but you can utilise the concept of offset & then concatenate them.

Luck,

Bhumika