Get actual time for specific time zone

Dear experts,
is it possible to get the actual time for a given time zone? We need to know the time of a certain plant and we are searching for a standard function module which calculates the time based on the plants time zone.
Thanks in advance,
David
Edited by: David Claes on Apr 12, 2010 5:05 PM

You can use TIME ZONE statement for this.
DATA: time_stamp_s TYPE string,
            time_stamp     TYPE timestamp,
            tzone              TYPE timezone,
           wf_date_conv TYPE sy-datum,
           wf_time_conv TYPE sy-uzeit.
tzone = 'CET'.
CONCATENATE sy-datlo   "Local Date
                          sy-timlo    "Local Time
                  INTO time_stamp_s.
time_stamp = time_stamp_s.
CONVERT TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tzone INTO DATE wf_date_conv TIME wf_time_conv.
Otherwise FM IB_CONVERT_INTO_TIMESTAMP/IB_CONVERT_FROM_TIMESTAMP can bne used for same.
Edited by: Satyajit on Apr 13, 2010 1:31 PM

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