topic Previous month end datetime in SAS Programming

Previous month end datetime

Analyticguru_09 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:35:46 GMT

How to create a macrovariable which holds the value of previousmonth end date time

For ex: '8/30/2011 23:59:59'

FriedEgg — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:16:11 GMT

proc format;

picture mydtfmt

other = '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S' (datatype=datetime);

run;

data _null_;

/* get first day of current month */

today=today();

first_day=mdy(month(today),1,year(today));

/* get last day of previous month and add time 23:59:59 */

want_d=first_day-1;

want_dt=dhms(want_d,23,59,59);

/* put calculated datetime into macrovariable with for m/d/Y H:M:S */

call symput('previousmonth',put(want_dt,mydtfmt.));

run;

%put &previousmonth;

art297 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:23:39 GMT

or, a bit easier:

data _null_;

call symput('prev_month_end',intnx('dtmonth', datetime(),-1,'E'));

run;