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o_p
SAS Employee o_p
SAS Employee

Hi All,

I want to create a variable which shows the previous hour.

The format of this variable will be YYYYMMDDHH. --> ($CHAR10.)

Assume that; now it is 2014102322, and I want to create my variable with 2014102321 which means it is one hour before the current time.

If it is 2014102400 then the value should be 2014102323.

How can I code that?

Thanks,

Onuralp

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BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

you can create your own datetime format to get the what you want. The INTNX function can be used to add or subtract datetime intervals, see sample

below:

proc format;

  picture xyyyymmddhh (default=10)

    low - high = '%Y%m%0d%0H' (datatype=datetime)

  ;

run;

data test;

  now = datetime();

  length now_c10 $ 10;

  now_c10 = put(now, xyyyymmddhh.);

  now1h = intnx("dthour", now, -1);

  now_c101h = put(now1h, xyyyymmddhh.);

 

  format now datetime22.3;

run;

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BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

you can create your own datetime format to get the what you want. The INTNX function can be used to add or subtract datetime intervals, see sample

below:

proc format;

  picture xyyyymmddhh (default=10)

    low - high = '%Y%m%0d%0H' (datatype=datetime)

  ;

run;

data test;

  now = datetime();

  length now_c10 $ 10;

  now_c10 = put(now, xyyyymmddhh.);

  now1h = intnx("dthour", now, -1);

  now_c101h = put(now1h, xyyyymmddhh.);

 

  format now datetime22.3;

run;

o_p
SAS Employee o_p
SAS Employee

Thanks Bruno.

This is definitely what I was looking for. Smiley Happy

Regards,

Olp

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