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
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;
data _NULL_;
a='22JUN2019:23:14:12'dt;
put a=;
put a= datetime.;
b=datepart(a);
put b=;
put b= date9.;
run;
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 |
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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