ETOD

The ETOD control statement specifies the starting time and ending time of the reporting period for an Exception or Overview report for each day in the reporting period.

The syntax of the statement is:

ETOD(hhmm,hhmm)

where hh denotes the hours and mm denotes the minutes.

When the ETOD statement is omitted, the default value is ETOD(0000,2400); that is, all times are reported. Thus, you would use this control statement when you want a reporting period for an Exception report that is different from the default value.

Because the range of values allowed is from 0000 to 2400, it is not possible to define a reporting period that consists of a single block of time spanning more than one calendar day. Thus, you cannot define a reporting period that, for example, runs from 12 noon on one day to 12 noon on the next day. However, you can define a reporting period that consists of the same block of time over several days. For example, to produce an Exception report using data collected from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM for the week beginning on January 3, 2016 and ending on January 9, 2016, the required DATE and ETOD statements are:

DATE(01032016,01092016)
ETOD(0800,1300)