topic Re: Simple date format -UTC in SAS Programming

Simple date format -UTC

Gpp — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:50:04 GMT

Hi , I receive a excel file with this simple date format , anyone can help to get the correct date time format to import in SAS ? yyyy-MM-ddTHH-hh-ss-SSSZ

Thanks

Re: Simple date format -UTC

Gpp — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:56:06 GMT

Sorry , , pls look at this correct one .
yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ

Re: Simple date format -UTC

RW9 — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:17:15 GMT

My first thought is E8601 formats, but do peruse the list:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/leforinforref/64790/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0verk17pchh4vn1akrrv0b5w3r0.htm

Re: Simple date format -UTC

ballardw — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:21:35 GMT

@Gpp wrote:
Hi , I receive a excel file with this simple date format , anyone can help to get the correct date time format to import in SAS ? yyyy-MM-ddTHH-hh-ss-SSSZ

Thanks

You may want to save the Excel file to CSV format so that you can specify an INFORMAT in a data step to read specific values. Otherwise you will need an additional step after importing.

And if you are going to deal with multiple files in same layout Proc Import makes fresh guesses for each file you read which may lead to variables changing data type and/or lengths from file to file causing issues if the data sets are combined. CSV and a standard data step to read the files can prevent many headaches later.