topic Re: How print out time info. inside MACRO with format ?! in SAS Programming

How print out time info. inside MACRO with format ?!

hellohere — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:34:23 GMT

Running macro with huge loops, and like to print out the end time of each loop in format, such as hhmmss[or with millisecond].

Need this to tell time cost for each loop.

Simply %put "%sysfunc(time())"; does print out time info, but without format, hard to tell.

44497    %put "%sysfunc(time())";
"84736.9679999351"

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:38:49 GMT

%SYSFUNC allows formats:

%put %sysfunc(time(),time8.);

PaigeMiller — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:39:05 GMT

Assign whatever date/time format you want, like this:

 %put %sysfunc(datetime(),datetime19.);

Tom — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:39:27 GMT

So why just add a FORMAT to the %SYSFUNC() call?

%put %sysfunc(time(),time12.3);

Or perhaps better use DATETIME() function so you can track jobs that cross midnight.

%put %sysfunc(datetime(),datetime24.3);