TIME STAMPING

[Former Member]

what does timestamping mean.... could anyone explain stepbystep...

and where do use it exactly...

looking for reply

thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Guru,

A time stamp adds date and time information to records (normally in a table). The time stamp usually indicates when the record has been created.

Very often a time stamp is needed when using delta mechanisms. A delta mechanism needs to "know", which records have already been transferred. If you have a date/time information, it can easily be compared with the records' time stamp.

Kind regartds,

Stefan

[Former Member]

Hi Guru,

Here is the Documentation for TIMESTAMP.

Short Text

UTC Time Stamp in Short Form (YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

Definition

The UTC timestamp is the date and time relative to the UTC (Universal coordinated time).

To normalize local times in a UTC time stamp and make them comparable, they must be converted using their time zone and the ABAP command convert.

Although the time zone for the conversion can be fetched from customizing or master data, you should save it redundantly.

The internal structure of the UTC time stamp is logically divided into a date and time part in packed number format <YYYYMMDDhhmmss>. There is also a high resolution UTC time stamp (10^-7 seconds).

Hope this resolves

Regards

Karthik.

[Former Member]

Time stamp is "Time rapresentation" in the format YYYY.MM.DD.HH.MM.SS.

For more details see with SE11 TIMESTAMP Data Type (Data Element) --> Documentation

Hope it helps

Regards

Karthik

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