topic Re: SAS Time Format to Seconds in SAS Programming

SAS Time Format to Seconds

D_Z_ — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:41:33 GMT

I have looked all over the place for this and haven't been able to find anything to lead me in the right direction.

I have a dataset that is in SAS Time format HH:MM:SS (24 hours time format)... what i need to do is convert the time to seconds.

So for example, 0:12:28 would be converted to 748. I know its possible.. i just can't find a way to do it.

Can anyone help with a datastep or a calculated field in a select statement that can do this. The name of the field is TTL_AHT

Any help would be awesome!

Re: SAS Time Format to Seconds

novinosrin — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:48:44 GMT

Run and have fun-->

data w;
k='0:12:28't;
k1='0:12:28';
k2=input(k1,time.);/* i think you want this*/
run;

Re: SAS Time Format to Seconds

Tom — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:52:59 GMT

If you have a TIME variable it is already in seconds. Just remove the format if you want it to print as a raw number of seconds instead of being formatted to look like a time value.

Re: SAS Time Format to Seconds

Reeza — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:09:10 GMT

SAS stores times as seconds natively. A format is used to control the display, so removing the format will create the raw seconds value.

data demo;
x='11:45't;
y=x;

format x time6.;
format y; *no format, not needed but how you would remove a format;

run;


proc print data=demo;run;

Re: SAS Time Format to Seconds

D_Z_ — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 06:39:02 GMT

Thanks Tom! After I read... i realized that i was trying to complicate it way too much... i knew that deep down inside. Thank you so much!