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ABAP Keyword Documentation → ABAP Glossary →time stamp
Combined date/ time for identifying a point in time. Time stamps in the ABAP runtime environment are POSIX time stamps independent of time zone. Their representation is provided by packed numbers defined by the data types TIMESTAMP or TIMESTAMPL from ABAP Dictionary.