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DarrylLawrence
Obsidian | Level 7

I have a Date column that has been formatted as a number and the datetime is reflected as a number, eg 1753920000

 

I need to convert this to a date format, eg 20151001 or 01OCT.

 

Thanks

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Since valid_end_dt1 contains valid SAS datetime values (otherwise the datetime20. format would never work), you can apply the datepart function directly to it. No need for the double conversion.

So your code would be

data VALID_DATE;
set source table;
valid_end_date_1=datepart(valid_end_dt1);
format valid_end_date_1 date5.;
run;

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sbxkoenk
SAS Super FREQ
data _NULL_;
 a='22JUN2019:23:14:12'dt;
 put a=;
 put a= datetime.;
 b=datepart(a);
 put b=;
 put b= date9.;
run;
DarrylLawrence
Obsidian | Level 7

I solved the problem as follows:

 


data VALID_DATE;
set source table;

valid_end_date_1=datepart(input(put(valid_end_dt1,datetime20.),datetime20.));

format valid_end_date_1 date5. ;
run;

 

Results:

 

VALID_END_DT1 VALID_END_DATE_1
1753920000 31-Jul
1753920000 31-Jul

 

 

 

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Since valid_end_dt1 contains valid SAS datetime values (otherwise the datetime20. format would never work), you can apply the datepart function directly to it. No need for the double conversion.

So your code would be

data VALID_DATE;
set source table;
valid_end_date_1=datepart(valid_end_dt1);
format valid_end_date_1 date5.;
run;
DarrylLawrence
Obsidian | Level 7
Thanks Kurt, it works!
Peter_C
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
Rather than use datepart() function to convert the value, you could use the DTDATE. format to present just the date without any other conversion.

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