topic Re: ANYDTDTM Informat in SAS Programming

ANYDTDTM Informat

arcacha — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:10:44 GMT

Greeting SAS nation

I’m trying to figure out how you get the result 1546387200 in the link below. I understand how you calculated 1640995200 as that’s the number of seconds from Jan 1 1960 to Jan 1 2012 but the other number is a little confusing.

Thanks

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/vdmmlcdc/8.1/leforinforref/p1hsn1ji141r4zn0z3xm2dthop6a.htm#n0tmnkkkss6wf9n16vyqlbngl3vv

Re: ANYDTDTM Informat

ErikLund_Jensen — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:36:38 GMT

Hi @arcacha

It is a typing error in the documentation, or maybe a half finished update, because it is not true that 1640995200 and 1546387200 both formats to 01jan12 with the datetime format. The lower number is Jan 1. 2009.

157  data _null_;
158      a = 1640995200;
159      put a datetime.;
160      a = 1546387200;
161      put a datetime.;
162  run;

01JAN12:00:00:00
01JAN09:00:00:00

Re: ANYDTDTM Informat

arcacha — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:53:36 GMT

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Thanks @ErikLund_Jensen

Yeah I though there was something amiss here. Hopefully the error can be corrected.

Cheers

Re: ANYDTDTM Informat

BrunoMueller — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 07:06:33 GMT

I suggest to provide feedback to the writers of the documentation. Use the feedback "button" in the top right corner for this.