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"Retrieving the current date with respect to UTC, e.g. 20240101
"The result's base type is the DDIC type dats that is mapped to the
"ABAP type d.
DATA(utc_date) = cl_abap_context_info=>get_system_date( ).

"Using XCO
"Notes:
"- The results of the following chained statements are of type string.
"- With the 'as' method, a given format (available via xco_cp_time=>format)
"  is applied to the time. Several options are available.
"- The 'date' method has an optional importing parameter for specifying the
"  time zone. By default, the user's time zone is used. For the specification,
"  you can use xco_cp_time=>time_zone.

"The following three examples:
"- do not specify the optional importing parameter for the 'date' method. In
"  this case, the user time zone is used implicitly.
"- specify a specific format in the 'as' method.

"e.g. 20250101
DATA(date_abap) = xco_cp=>sy->date( )->as( xco_cp_time=>format->abap )->value.

"e.g. 20250101
DATA(date_basic) = xco_cp=>sy->date( )->as( xco_cp_time=>format->iso_8601_basic )->value.

"e.g. 2025-01-01
DATA(date_ext) = xco_cp=>sy->date( )->as( xco_cp_time=>format->iso_8601_extended )->value.

"Specifying the time zone explicitly in the 'date' method
"The following method call retrieves the current user date.
DATA(date_user_tz) = xco_cp=>sy->date( xco_cp_time=>time_zone->user
                                )->as( xco_cp_time=>format->iso_8601_basic
                                )->value.

"Specifying the UTC time zone
DATA(date_utc_tz) = xco_cp=>sy->date( xco_cp_time=>time_zone->utc
                                )->as( xco_cp_time=>format->iso_8601_basic
                                )->value.

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
*& Retrieving the current date values using XCO
*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*

"e.g. 01
DATA(day) = xco_cp=>sy->date( )->day.
"e.g. 01
DATA(month) = xco_cp=>sy->date( )->month.
"e.g. 2024
DATA(year) = xco_cp=>sy->date( )->year.

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
*& Creating dates
*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*

DATA date_cr1 TYPE d.
date_cr1 = '20240101'.
DATA date_cr2 TYPE d VALUE '20240202'.
DATA(date_cr3) = CONV d( '20240303' ).

"Using XCO
"The result contains a reference. It can be used for further processing
"with the XCO library.
DATA(xco_date) = xco_cp_time=>date( iv_year = 2024
                                    iv_month = 3
                                    iv_day = 3 ).

"Examples
"2024-03-03
DATA(date_cr4) = xco_date->as( xco_cp_time=>format->iso_8601_extended )->value.
"03
DATA(day_from_date) = xco_date->day.

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