topic numeric year convert to date in SAS Procedures

numeric year convert to date

TashaBee — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:00:09 GMT

I am trying to convert a numeric year to sas year date. The years are 2013 and 2014. When I have them converted, they are 1965 for both.

This gives me the numeric format for year: year=input(substr(compress(reporting_term,1,4),yy4.);

When I format the year using YEAR4., I am able to get the year formatted, but it gives me 1965.

Any assistance will be great.

Re: numeric year convert to date

Astounding — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:11:59 GMT

SAS doesn't store years as dates. It only stores individual days. If you have a variable that takes on values of 2013, 2014, etc., you can convert them to a legitimate day using:

year = mdy(1, 1, year);

Then the year4 format would print just the year. You're not storing the year, you're storing January 1st of that year. But the format controls what will print.

Good luck.

Re: numeric year convert to date

RW9 — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:29:58 GMT

Erm, just store the 2013 as a number as that is all it is. Not sure why you would want a format on that as 2013 = 2013 nothing fancy.

Re: numeric year convert to date

TashaBee — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:02:02 GMT

Thank you!! That worked for what I needed!