topic Re: How to export time to excel ? in SAS Programming

How to export time to excel ?

Gil_ — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 04:05:34 GMT

Hi I have table with start time. hh:mm when I export to excel using proc ecport to a xlsb file lt adds generic date and the correct time thanks for assistance for example 01/01/1990 05:33

Re: How to export time to excel ?

unison — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:01:18 GMT

One option is convert your datetime/time value into the character representation. Take the below as an example:

data have;
input time :datetime.;
format time datetime.;
datalines;
01JAN2020:05:33:00
;
run;

data want;
set have;
new_time = put(timepart(time),tod5.);
drop time;
run;

proc export data=want 
	file='/folders/myfolders/test.xlsb' 
	dbms=xls
	replace;
	sheet="test";
run;

Re: How to export time to excel ?

Gil_ — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 06:06:15 GMT

Thanks will try it

Re: How to export time to excel ?

Tom — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 06:08:03 GMT

Excel does not have a time of day concept like SAS. So when you enter a time in excel it always stores it as that time of day on some day. You can change the display format in Excel to have it just show the time part however.

When opened excel and typed in 12:00 it stored 0.5 and set the display to show it as hours and minutes. But if you change the display format you can get it to show the year, month and day also. (And also discover why you shouldn't use Excel to store dates before March 1, 1900.)

Re: How to export time to excel ?

Gil_ — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:16:17 GMT

Thank you it works