topic Re: CCYYMMDD_HHMM string in SAS Programming

CCYYMMDD_HHMM string

Ying — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:30:38 GMT

Hello,

How to format datetime to CCYYMMDD_HHMM? I can cat a string for YYMMDD_HHMM, but I have no idea about CC (century). Would I have any idea from you?

Thank you!

Yvonne

Re: CCYYMMDD_HHMM string

Keith — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:00:54 GMT

Create a picture format using the required directives to produce the result you want. You can then either format the existing column, or create a character string using the PUT statement.

proc format;

picture dtfmt low-high = '%Y%0m%0d_%0H%0M'

(datatype=datetime);

run;

data want;

a='18jul2012:08:50'dt;

format a dtfmt.;

b=put(a,dtfmt.);

run;

Re: CCYYMMDD_HHMM string

Ksharp — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:25:36 GMT

What is your sample data and output you need ?

Re: CCYYMMDD_HHMM string

Ying — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:07:24 GMT

system time, such as today()

Re: CCYYMMDD_HHMM string

Haikuo — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:03:17 GMT

I am not sure if understand your question. For example 'today', 20120718, '20' marks CC(century), '12' marks YY, etc. What is the question then? If you are asking why '20' denotes 21st century, well that is way it is, as it started out as 1st instead of 0th century (A.D).

Haikuo

Re: CCYYMMDD_HHMM string

advoss — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:04:39 GMT

I agree with Keith. Additionally, you probably want to use datetime() rather than today() if you want hours and minutes as well as date.

Re: CCYYMMDD_HHMM string

Ying — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:07:31 GMT

Thank you all for helping me. Hai.Kuo is right that YYYY = CCYY.