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ABAP implicitly references the Gregorian calendar, valid across most of the world. We can convert the output to country specific calendars. A date is a time specified to a precise day, week or month with respect to a calendar. A time is specified to a precise second or minute with respect to a day. ABAP always saves time in 24-hour format. The output can have a country specific format. Dates and time are usually interpreted as local dates that are valid in the current time zone.


ABAP provides two built-in types to work with dates and time −


D data type

T data type

Following is the basic format −


DATA: date TYPE D, 

      time TYPE T.  

DATA: year TYPE I, 

month TYPE I,  

day TYPE I, 

hour TYPE I,  

minute TYPE I, 

second TYPE I.

Both of these types are fixed-length character types that have the form YYYYMMDD and HHMMSS, respectively.

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