topic Re: problem in date function in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/problem-in-date-function/m-p/108376#M22534 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You should use datepart function. the error message may be caused by missing stop_date or start_date.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:28:14 GMT Linlin 2012-08-30T12:28:14Z problem in date function https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/problem-in-date-function/m-p/108375#M22533 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everyone,</P><P></P><P>I have two variables for dates i.e. start date and stop date (along with time format) . To skip time, we are using trunc function. when I used the same , I got error like</P><P>ERROR: Function TRUNC requires at least 2 argument(s).</P><P></P><P>Can anyone help me&nbsp; as I am new.</P><P>trunc(stop_date) &gt;trunc(start_date)</P><P></P><P>when I used datepart function , i got error like</P><P>NOTE: Invalid (or missing) arguments to the DATEPART function have caused the function to return a missing value.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:14:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/problem-in-date-function/m-p/108375#M22533 dash 2012-08-30T12:14:54Z Re: problem in date function https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/problem-in-date-function/m-p/108376#M22534 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You should use datepart function. the error message may be caused by missing stop_date or start_date.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:28:14 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/problem-in-date-function/m-p/108376#M22534 Linlin 2012-08-30T12:28:14Z