Problem with time stamp conversion

Question

Hi All,
I am using the below code to convert timestamp to date and time  , its working fine when i print it with write statement  .
But i want to convert and pass the time and date with format to excel sheet , but  its it taking again as string not in date time format .
please see the below code .
time_stamp = 20030309043000.
CONVERT TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tz
       INTO DATE dat TIME tim. 
*WRITE: /(10) dat, (8) tim .
please suggest .

Answer 1

Now that you've converted your time stamp to date (type d) and time (type t), convert them into alphnumeric fields like you want or tell excel what is in that column, since Excel isn't telepathic...and doesn't always know what we sent it....
data: date10(10) type c.
         time8(8) type c.
write dat to date10 mm/dd/yyyy. "converts type d to user's specific date setting (not necessarily mm/dd/yyyy).
concatenate tim(2)
                    tim+2(2)
                    tim+4(2)
   into time8 separated by ':'.
I do wish that I understood the fascination with Excel....when we have such marvelous tools to work with inside SAP or BW.