How To Fix /IWBEP/SBOD218 - ABAP Data Type 'DATE' does not allow B.C. date, Year 00 or negative year

/IWBEP/SBOD218 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: /IWBEP/SBOD -

• Message number: 218

• Message text: ABAP Data Type 'DATE' does not allow B.C. date, Year 00 or negative year

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message /IWBEP/SBOD218 - ABAP Data Type 'DATE' does not allow B.C. date, Year 00 or negative year ?

  The SAP error message /IWBEP/SBOD218 indicates that there is an issue with the ABAP data type 'DATE' when it encounters a date that is either in the B.C. (Before Christ) era, has a year of 00, or has a negative year. The ABAP data type for dates does not support these values, as it is designed to handle dates in the Gregorian calendar starting from year 1 A.D. (Anno Domini).
  
  Cause:
  
  
  Invalid Date Input: The error typically arises when an application or process attempts to input a date that is not valid according to the ABAP date format. This could be due to:
  
  A date being set to a year of 00 or a negative year.
  A date being incorrectly formatted or parsed from an external source.
  Data migration issues where historical dates are incorrectly represented.
  
  
  
  Data Source Issues: If the date is being pulled from an external system or database, it may contain invalid date