topic Today() Function in SAS Programming

Today() Function

buechler66 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:11:06 GMT

I'm trying to write the current datetime to my log when my program ends. I'm obviously not getting my expected result. Any ideas where I'm going wrong here?

data _null_;
   dt_stamp = today();
   PUT 'Progam Stopped: ' dt_stamp datetime20.;
run;

Progam Stopped:   01JAN1960:05:45:32

Re: Today() Function

Astounding — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:15:06 GMT

Back to the future!

The TODAY() function doesn't return a date-time value. It just returns a date. You could switch to DATETIME() instead.

Re: Today() Function

buechler66 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:36:32 GMT

That worked for me. Thanks very much.