topic Error when trying to apply date, time formats to variables names 'date' and 'time' in SAS Programming

Error when trying to apply date, time formats to variables names 'date' and 'time'

DaveHaans — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:04:46 GMT

Hi there,

I am trying to run a simple format command on SAS 9.4 64-bit:

format date date9. time time8. datetime datetime17.;

But I get this error:

ERROR 48-59: The format $DATE was not found or could not be loaded.

I get the same error re: time, but no error re: datetime.

This is a statement I've used many times before, and I see it on the internet as well. I've restarted SAS but have the same issue.

It also seems that if I change the names of the date and time variables, it works. That isn't a good solution here, though.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Dave.

Re: Error when trying to apply date, time formats to variables names 'date' and 'time'

DaveHaans — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:08:46 GMT

Ack! Nevermind, I was concatenating two different datasets and for some reason when I took the second dataset out, it worked.

Re: Error when trying to apply date, time formats to variables names 'date' and 'time'

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:56:50 GMT

Variable "date" is of type character.