topic How to set a Time Zone for a SAS Platform in Administration and Deployment

How to set a Time Zone for a SAS Platform

RexDeus9 — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:01:05 GMT

Hi,

Tired of browsing web info that leads no where, can someone tell me how do we set the Time Zone for the entire platform?

Thx.

Re: How to set a Time Zone for a SAS Platform

gwootton — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:24:56 GMT

There is a timezone option you can specify for the SAS session:

Specifying Time Zones in SAS
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/nlsref/n0px72paaaqx06n1ozps024j78cl.htm

Other than that I think mostly it relies on the underlying OS for time/date/timezone information.

Re: How to set a Time Zone for a SAS Platform

RexDeus9 — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:39:45 GMT

Hi Gwootton,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it doesn't answer the question for the 'SAS Platform'. The documentation on the session Time Zone is plentiful, just not what we're looking for here.

Thx.

Re: How to set a Time Zone for a SAS Platform

gwootton — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:27:41 GMT

The answer for the "SAS Platform" was my statement about the underlying OS.

If your question is how to set that option for all SAS sessions, you could set it in <SASHome>/SASFoundation/9.4/sasv9_local.cfg.

Re: How to set a Time Zone for a SAS Platform

RexDeus9 — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:40:44 GMT

Hi,

Yes, that's what I'm looking for. So I guess something like this (For Eastern Time Zone):

File: <SASHome>/SASFoundation/9.4/sasv9_local.cfg

TIMEZONE=EST

Thx

Re: How to set a Time Zone for a SAS Platform

gwootton — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:54:19 GMT

That's the correct file. The syntax in the documentation indicates the value be enclosed in quotes (i.e. TIMEZONE='EST'), but in my testing it seemed to accept it with or without.

TIMEZONE= System Option
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/nlsref/p15siqs0s00e50n1wuuvygzkr14r.htm