topic date/time set to midnight of the day in SAS Programming

date/time set to midnight of the day

monday89 — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:29:06 GMT

I have the following dataset. What I would like to do is that set the final_stop_date_time to be the midnight of the start_date_time

patientID	start_date_time	stop_date_time
1	1/2/2019 1:40	1/2/2019 22:59
2	2/3/2019 1:40
3	4/4/2019 1:40	4/4/2019 23:59

To this:

patientID	start_date_time	stop_date_time	final_stop_date
1	1/2/2019 1:40	1/2/2019 22:59	1/2/2019 23:59
2	2/3/2019 1:40		2/3/2019 23:59
3	4/4/2019 1:40	4/4/2019 23:59	4/4/2019 23:59

i tried

intcx and intx but i couldn't get to set to midnight. any helpful would be great!

Re: date/time set to midnight of the day

art297 — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:51:01 GMT

Something like this should work:

data want;
  set have;
  final_stop_date_time=intnx('dtday',stop_date_time,0,'e');
run;

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: date/time set to midnight of the day

monday89 — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:03:26 GMT

Thanks! It worked

Re: date/time set to midnight of the day

ChrisNZ — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:07:42 GMT

> i tried intcx and intx but i couldn't get to set to midnight. any helpful would be great!

Just a terminology point: You don't really want midnight.

Midnight is generally considered 00:00 of the next day (or 12.00 am of the next day in the crazy am pm system), rather than 24:00 of the current day.

So @art297 's solution gives what you actually want and what you showed: the last moment of the current day.

Also note that there are ways to alter this convention in SAS, such as the DATATYPE=DATETIME_UTIL option for the picture format, which ends the day at 24:00.