topic Month from date variable in SAS Programming

Month from date variable

rasika — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:19:52 GMT

Hello,

I have written below mentioned code for getting Month of Bonus from Hire date but in Month it shows only Jan, as hire date is starting on 1st of any month so its reading the date and showing as jan.the result output is attached for your reference.

FORMAT HIRE_DATE date9. BIRTH_DATE DDMMYY10.;*TO FORMAT DATE;
BonusMonth= month(Hire_Date);
format bonusmonth monname3.;

Re: Month from date variable

SASKiwi — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:33:17 GMT

How do want it displayed? Like this?

BonusMonth = Hire_Date;
format BonusMonth monyy7.;

Re: Month from date variable

novinosrin — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:34:58 GMT

Your are applying format monname to a number that is a date value rather than a month value. So, upto 31 will ofcourse show as jan for the year 1960.

Try

proc format ;  
 value mn_name 1='January'
               2='February'
               3='March'
               4='April'
               5='May'
               6='June'
               7='July'
               8='August'
               9='September'
              10='October'
              11='November'
              12='December'
           other='Invalid';
run;

and apply:
format bonusmonth mn_name.;

Re: Month from date variable

Reeza — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:43:02 GMT

Theres a MONNAME format you can use directly on the date.

Month = put(date, monname.);

Re: Month from date variable

rasika — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:08:25 GMT

Thank You Soo muchh