topic Re: Hi in SAS Procedures

Hi

AmolGothe — Mon, 11 May 2015 05:58:57 GMT

I have a variable called post_time which is in the numeric format with values like 129, 203,252 etc I want to convert this variable into a time variable with values in format like follows:

129 to 13:29

203 to 14:03 etc.

need help for the code on this.

Re: Hi

BrunoMueller — Mon, 11 May 2015 13:42:05 GMT

You can use the HMS function with the appropriate arguments. See sample below.

How can you know that the 1 in 129 is hour 13?

data have;
  infile cards; 
  input 
    post_time : 8.
  ;
  date_s = hms(int(post_time / 100), mod(post_time, 100), 0);
  format date_s time8.; 
cards; 
129
203
252
;

Re: Hi

RW9 — Mon, 11 May 2015 13:52:32 GMT

I am afraid it is too vague. Why does 129 = 13:29 and not 01:29 which would seem more logical, how would 01:29 be represented? Could it not also be 129 minutes past a certain time value? Then its just time_point + 129.

Re: Hi

AmolGothe — Mon, 11 May 2015 13:53:04 GMT

Thanks Bruno

I have a reference dataset (a csv file) and in that reference dataset they have used the post_time variable to calculate the time_variable that i am trying to calculate.

Regards

Amol Gothe

Re: Hi

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 12 May 2015 07:09:00 GMT

Still the question is, how are AM times represented? Seems like the one who created the file did not really engage her/his brain before starting to type. Or you missed some necessary information (maybe AM/PM is stored in another column of the csv?)