topic SAS processing time calculation problem in SAS Procedures

SAS processing time calculation problem

vomer — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:05:13 GMT

hey guys,

so I use this code to calculate the total processing time the sas program took to run but it is reporting a negative value (espicially when the program runs for more than 1 day):

%let datetime_start = %sysfunc(TIME()) ;

%put START TIME: %sysfunc(datetime(),datetime14.);

then at the end of the program I put this:

%put END TIME: %sysfunc(datetime(),datetime14.);

%put PROCESSING TIME: %sysfunc(putn(%sysevalf(%sysfunc(TIME())-&datetime_start.),mmss.)) (mm:ss) ;

not sure what to fix?

SAS processing time calculation problem

Haikuo — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:11:22 GMT

You need to use datetime value if the program running time is more than 1 day. Make them both datatime.

%let datetime_start = %sysfunc(dateTIME()) ;

%put PROCESSING TIME: %sysfunc(putn(%sysevalf(%sysfunc(dateTIME())-&datetime_start.),mmss.)) (mm:ss) ;

Regards,

Haikuo

SAS processing time calculation problem

vomer — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:20:48 GMT

thansk!!