https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649914#M194875 <P>Where is the datetime value supposed to come from?</P> Fri, 22 May 2020 14:23:21 GMT ballardw 2020-05-22T14:23:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649907#M194871 <P>Hi,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I want to create a out file along with&nbsp;yyyymmddhhmmss.</P><P>Could someone help on this ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Example : filename_yyyymmddhhmmss.txt</P> Fri, 22 May 2020 13:45:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649907#M194871 AshokD 2020-05-22T13:45:42Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649914#M194875 <P>Where is the datetime value supposed to come from?</P> Fri, 22 May 2020 14:23:21 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649914#M194875 ballardw 2020-05-22T14:23:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649915#M194876 <P>The closest format I know to that is B8601DT, but it includes a T between the date and the time.&nbsp; You could strip that out.</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">%let now = %sysfunc(compress(%sysfunc(datetime(),b8601dt.),T)); filename want "/folders/myfolders/mydata_&amp;now..txt"; </CODE></PRE> Fri, 22 May 2020 14:25:45 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649915#M194876 Tom 2020-05-22T14:25:45Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649923#M194879 Just curious! Why do you need to store files this way? Could become a maintenance headache. Fri, 22 May 2020 14:52:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/filename-with-yyyymmddhhmmss/m-p/649923#M194879 biopharma 2020-05-22T14:52:42Z