topic Re: Concat Date and Time in SAS Procedures

Concat Date and Time

godoyau — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:06:00 GMT

Hi, I need to concat Date and Time using proc sql

Date

15/05/2018

Time

8:27:30

DateTime

15/05/2018 08:27:30

So I did that: 🙂

cat(put(day(Date),z2.),'/',put(month(Date),z2.),'/',year(Date),' ',put(hour(Time),z2.),':',put(minute(Time),z2.),":",put(second(Time),z2.)) as DateTime

Anyone can show me another way please one that I don’t mess with the column format

Re: Concat Date and Time

Reeza — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:08:30 GMT

new_var = dhms(date, 0, 0, time);

format new_var datetime.;

This may be helpful.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Working-with-Dates-and-Times-in-SAS-Tutorial/ta-p/424354

Re: Concat Date and Time

novinosrin — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:17:02 GMT

Are you dates and time char or numeric?

Re: Concat Date and Time

godoyau — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:20:32 GMT

Numeric

Re: Concat Date and Time

godoyau — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:25:21 GMT

Ok it works, but i need this format 15/05/18:08:27:30 and datetime. returns 15MAY18:08:27:30.

Re: Concat Date and Time

ballardw — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:50:31 GMT

@godoyau wrote:
Ok it works, but i need this format 15/05/18:08:27:30 and datetime. returns 15MAY18:08:27:30.

The value appears correct, what you are actually saying is that the display format does not meet you expectation/ need.

SAS provides a very large number of date, time and datetime display formats but cannot meet every single need. However you can create custom display format using Proc format with the Picture statement and directives. Warning for the code below: The quotes around the funny list of %0d/%0m/0%y:%0H:%0M:%0S must be single quotes or else SAS will think you are using macro variables. The case on the d m y H M and S are significant. Changing from 'm' to 'M' for instance will change the displayed value from month number to Minutes (and vice versa). The 0 are to display leading zeroes for values less than 10. Since this is not SAS supplied format it will be up to you to make sure the format is available when ever you need to use it. Either rerun the code every session or add the format to permanent format catalog.

proc format library=work;
picture mydttime
low - high= '%0d/%0m/0%y:%0H:%0M:%0S' (datatype=datetime)
;
run; 

data junk;
   x='15MAY18:08:27:30'dt;
   put x= mydttime.;
run;