topic Re: Date time stamp in SAS Programming

Date time stamp

ShrutiD — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 07:54:32 GMT

Hello

Please help me in changing the date, time stamp set for SAS 9.1 as it is incorrect.

Re: Date time stamp

ChrisNZ — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 08:22:30 GMT

You give give us fewer details but that would be hard.

What do you have? What do you want?

And provide a proc contents of the table if you are talking about data sitting in a table.

Re: Date time stamp

ChrisNZ — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:58:55 GMT

Also, I marked your other -identical- question as spam to avoid duplicates.

Re: Date time stamp

ShrutiD — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:03:56 GMT

Hello Chris

As I am new to SAS, I would request you to help me know how to change the date time stamp seen at the output window

for example in the below date time stamp,I need to alter the day shown(Thursday) as it is incorrect.

12:33 Thursday, February 25, 2018 1

Re: Date time stamp

ChrisNZ — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:28:55 GMT

This is the time you started the sas session.

Re: Date time stamp

Reeza — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:41:04 GMT

If you're referring to the date time that is printed by default at the bottom of a report, then the default system date is the date the SAS session was started. If you want the date/time you can use the following:

%put %sysfunc(date(), worddate.);

%put %sysfunc(datetime(), datetime.);

This means turning off the SAS default and adding your own date time to the report or ensuring that you use a clean session when submitting a report - i.e. if you run a report via batch process or stored process I would expect it to have the latest date.

footnote1 "This report was run on: %sysfunc(date(), worddate.)";

proc print data=sashelp.class (obs=5) noobs label;
run;

Note this doesn't seem to work on SAS UE for some reason, or at least mine is still reporting the session date:

Re: Date time stamp

mkeintz — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:12:12 GMT

@ShrutiD Your question has motivated me to see if there is an option to control the date/time info on listings and logs. And I've learned that there is:

OPTIONS NODTRESET;

means that the session start date and time are used in your procedure printout. This is the sas default on all the systems I have used.

OPTIONS DTRESET;

means that the time of procedure execution is used.

The options statement is global. I.e. it doesn't belong to a proc step or data step. When you issue it, all subsequent steps honor it.

So put OPTIIONS DTREST prior to your proc's of interest. And, if you want, it turns out you can go back to the sas default by issuing OPTIONS NODTRESET after those proc's.

Re: Date time stamp

Reeza — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:17:48 GMT

@mkeintz that's awesome!

Re: Date time stamp

ShrutiD — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 04:35:02 GMT

Thank you all for the solution!!