# Time Format

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/time-format/62263>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [May 31, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/time-format/62263 "2007-05-31T15:46:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@anik](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/anik)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/time-format/62263/1 "2007-05-31T15:46:21Z")

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Hello again  
I cant find any reference on : Time Format as a descriptor  
within the documentation  
glad if anyone can assist  
thanks

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**Author:** ![Klaus\_Sponagel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Klaus\_Sponagel](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Klaus_Sponagel)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/time-format/62263/2 "2007-05-31T17:13:56Z")

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See [url][http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/nat423mf/pg/pg\_defi\_dv.htm#format\_d[/url]](http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/nat423mf/pg/pg_defi_dv.htm#format_d%5B/url%5D) how TIME is defined in Natural.  
See [url][http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/adabas/ada812mfr/adamf/concepts/cfdesign.htm#cfdefinitions\_fldlformat[/url]](http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/adabas/ada812mfr/adamf/concepts/cfdesign.htm#cfdefinitions_fldlformat%5B/url%5D) for datatypes existing in Adabas.

Type T can be represented by a alpha or packed field in Adabas.

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**Author:** ![Matthias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Matthias1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Matthias1)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/time-format/62263/3 "2007-05-31T17:17:57Z")

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Natural stores a time-field as a 7-Byte packed Numeric containg the tenths of seconds since 2. Jan 0000 AD.

And so does adabas. The behaviour of the descriptor is just the same as a simple descriptor for a 7-byte packed Numeric.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/time-format/62263/4 "2021-04-02T14:41:13Z")

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