topic Date Formats in SAS Programming

Date Formats

anonymous_user — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:48:20 GMT

Hi, does anyone have a list of Date formats at all please?

As an example I have %let date=201606 so I will have yymmn6. but I don't have any others.

Many Thanks

Steve

Re: Date Formats

PeterClemmensen — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:49:17 GMT

I use this one 🙂

http://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/lrcon/zenid-63.htm

Re: Date Formats

anonymous_user — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:04:59 GMT

Thank you

Re: Date Formats

RW9 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:08:29 GMT

Do note, there were formats added for version 9, ISO ones for instance. You would be better looking at a later version's webpage:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a001263753.htm

For the OP: Putting dates in macro variables is never a good idea. You may think that text string is a date format, it is not, it is purely text. Any opertaion on it would need bth conversion, and checking to to make sure its correct, 3 times the effort, no benefit.

Re: Date Formats

anonymous_user — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:12:47 GMT

Thanks RW9!

Re: Date Formats

Tim_SAS — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:10:09 GMT

Here are links to the online SAS 9.4 doc for formats by category, and for informats by category.