How to format date as a DD, Month, Year?

Question

I need to split ABAP date like

20091101 --> "01", "november", "2009"

The "01" and "2009" are trivial, but how do I get the month name (which should be localized)?

Is there a function to do that?

If there is no such function, perhaps a table with month names?

Answer 1

I think the absolute simplest way would be to apply the conversion exit LDATE to your date field. Easiest is to call function module CONVERSION_EXIT_LDATE_OUTPUT.

This would for example convert

20090101

to

01. January 2009

(Unless you need to actually have the day, month text and year in separate strings, which you seem to indicate. Anyway, maybe it will help someone else).

Answer 2

You can get the month's name in a given language using the module function 'MONTH_NAMES_GET', passing the language as a parameter. The day (Sunday for example) can also be obtained using 'RH_GET_DATE_DAYNAME'

Guillaume

Answer 3

This code will give you the date in the long text format like 'December 02, 2011'. You may change the code accordingly to print the date with long MONTH name.

DATA: LONG_DATE(20).
PERFORM GET_LONG_DATE USING LONG_DATE.
WRITE: LONG_DATE.

FORM GET_LONG_DATE USING DATE.

DATA: T_MONTH_NAMES LIKE TABLE OF T247 WITH HEADER LINE.

CALL FUNCTION 'MONTH_NAMES_GET'
 EXPORTING
   LANGUAGE     = SY-LANGU
  TABLES
    MONTH_NAMES = T_MONTH_NAMES
  .

DATA: YEAR(4)   TYPE C,
      MONTH(2)  TYPE C,
      DAY(2)    TYPE C.

YEAR = SY-DATUM+(4).
MONTH = SY-DATUM+4(2).
DAY = SY-DATUM+6(2).


READ TABLE T_MONTH_NAMES INDEX ( MONTH ).

CONCATENATE T_MONTH_NAMES-LTX ' ' DAY  INTO DATE SEPARATED BY SPACE.
CONCATENATE DATE ',' INTO DATE.
CONCATENATE DATE YEAR INTO DATE SEPARATED BY SPACE.

WRITE / DATE.

ENDFORM.

Answer 4

* to get full name of the day / month also can use


          GET_MONTH_NAME ... for month and 
            GET_DATE_DAYNAME for the specific day name too

and other methods to get other format of the date are

• Using the WRITE statement

          data: get_date(10).  "field to store output date
  

  • Converts SAP date from 20130901 to 01.09.2013

        write sy-datum to get_date dd/mm/yyyy.
    

  • Converts SAP date from 20130901 to 01.09.13

        write sy-datum to get_date dd/mm/yy.
    

  • Using data manipulation techniques

    data: get_date(8).  "field to store output date
    

  • Converts SAP date from 20130901 to 01092013

         get_date(2)   = sy-datum+6(2).
         get_date+2(2) = sy-datum+4(2).
         get_date+4(4) = sy-datum(4).
    

  • Using Function modules

        data: get_date(8).  "field to store output date
    

  • Converts date from 20130901 to 01SEP2013

        get_date   = sy-datum.
    

    CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_IDATE_OUTPUT'

           EXPORTING
    
      input         = get_date
    
            IMPORTING
    
         OUTPUT        = get_date.
    

    these all the formats you can use for the specific dates/months and year