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Argonious
Calcite | Level 5

Hi,

 

I have this format of a birth date : 06FEB81:00:00:00 and from this I have to calculate the age of the person. How I have to format this in order to be able to use it and then what? Thanks in advance!

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Argonious
Calcite | Level 5

Datetime. the informat is ANYDTDTM40.

Argonious
Calcite | Level 5

I have my answer! Thank you very much! I tried to use this function earlier, but was doing it wrong. Now it works fine. Thanks again!

ballardw
Super User

Note that what you see is a pet peeve of mine, which seems to come from some defaults and/or lazy programming in some applications: storing DATE values as DATETIME. If your data, or your use, has not actual need of the time component you can reduce the variable to only date values using: Date = datepart(datetimevariable); (you could use the same variable as the result) and assign appropriate format for display.

Otherwise in the INTCK and INTNX functions when using a period like 'year' or 'month' you preface the period with 'dt' to tell SAS the value is a date time, hence the 'dtyear'

mkeintz
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