topic Difficulty with SAS time format in SAS Procedures

Difficulty with SAS time format

kgot — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:47:42 GMT

I am not sure what's going on, but I keep trying to convert seconds to time5, and it is not working.

I am first reading a datetime field from an Oracle passthrough, then taking the timepart, and trying to get it to format as a time5. (For example, I WANT it to display as 23:00 in a report later on, but it is instead displaying as 82800.) However, the time keeps displaying as seconds in the final document. What am I missing in the code?

Here is what I have:

data time_out;

set time_in;

time_fld=timepart(time_fld1);

run;

proc datasets library=work;

modify time_out;

format time_fld time5.;

run;

I have also tried running the time5 format directly in the data step, but it still is displaying the seconds.

Thank you!

Re: Difficulty with SAS time format

Reeza — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:52:25 GMT

What is the final document and how does it get there?

Re: Difficulty with SAS time format

kgot — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:54:45 GMT

It is an Excel file that is put together via an ods tagsets.excelxp.

Re: Difficulty with SAS time format

Reeza — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:07:53 GMT

I think if there is an issue it's a part of the code you're not showing.

Does the following base case work for you?

data have;

datetime=datetime();

format date: datetime21.;

run;

proc print; run;

data want;

set have;

time=timepart(datetime);

format time time5.;

run;

proc print; run;

ods tagsets.excelxp file="C:\_localdata\delete.xml" style=meadow;

proc print data=want;

run;

ods tagsets.excelxp close;

Re: Difficulty with SAS time format

kgot — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:15:36 GMT

Yes, that did display correctly:

1	27AUG2015:16:11:05	16:11

As far as I can tell, I don't do any further processing to this particular dataset later on, except to join it up to other tables and output this time field. Is there anything else I should look for to troubleshoot?

Re: Difficulty with SAS time format

kgot — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:34:20 GMT

ACTUALLY, your comment on it being somewhere else in the code made me look elsewhere. I had this data joining to another table in a proc sql, and it must have been reverting back to the seconds then. I put a format in the proc sql, and it worked. Thank you, Reeza!