topic DateTime Format in SAS Procedures

DateTime Format

aiksai — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:00:42 GMT

Need your kindly help on DateTime format please.

05DEC10:11:57:00, Which SAS datatime format should I use.

Thank you.

SASKiwi — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:07:37 GMT

data _null;

datetime = '05DEC10:11:57:00'dt;

format datetime datetime16.;

put datetime = ;

run;

PGStats — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:35:51 GMT

Follow SASKiwi's advice and further use DATETIME16. both for input and output as in:

data _null_;

   dateTimeStr = '05DEC10:11:57:00';
   format dateTime datetime16.;
   dateTime = input(dateTimeStr, datetime16.);
   put dateTimeStr = dateTime = ;

run;