Date conversion from Excel to the SAP format

Question

Hi,
I have created a BDC program which uploads daat from Excel sheet.
There is a date field also, the format of which can be any as per the end user (it will be one of those allowed by SAP).
However, the file will be used for execution by another user who may have a date setting which is different than that from the one in Excel.
Eg. End User's date format: DD.MM.YYYY, SAP User's date format: MM/DD/YYYY
So, how do I convert the date format from excel to the format which will be accepted by the transaction during the recording?
Regards,
Dave

Answer 1

Hi Dave,
I have faced the same issue while uploading the date to the bdc.
if ur date format is DD.MM.YYYY in the excel file, first of all you need to change this to dats format ie YYYYMMDD ie character8 format and pass to the bdc, it will automatically convert to sap format
ie you need to convert splitting at .
data lv_date type char10,
        lv_dd type char02,
        lv_mm type char02,
       lv_yyyy type char04,
v_date type char08.
lv_date = '30.12.2011'.
split lv_date at '.' into lv_dd lv_mm lv_yyyy.
if strlen(lv_dd) lt 2.
   concatenate '0' lv_dd into lv_dd.
endif.
if strlen(lv_mm) lt 2.
   concatenate '0' lv_mm into lv_mm.
endif.
concatenate lv_yyyy lv_mm lv_dd into v_date.
"Please use the variable V_DATE to populate to ur bdc"
Edited by: Rahul Babukuttan on Aug 11, 2011 5:35 PM