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Date/Time Processing in Release 7.40
1. Weaker type check for time zones
Weaker Type Check for Time Zones
A character-like data object is now sufficient in all operand positions where a time zone could previously only be specified with exactly the type TZNZONE or as a text field of the length 6. This concerns the statements CONVERT [INTO] TIME STAMP and formatting of string templates and WRITE.