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Smitha9
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi I have a dataset A with this format

11JAN21:13:15:00.

12JUL02:12:30:02

I want to convert this to separate column of date and time(am and pm).

Date                          Time

01/11/2021            1:15:00pm

07/12/2002         12:30:02am

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SASJedi
SAS Super FREQ

Try the DATEPART and TIMEPART functions:

data want;
input DateTimeValue:datetime.;
Date=datepart(DateTimeValue);
Time=timepart(DateTimeValue);
format DateTimeValue datetime. Date mmddyy10. time timeampm.;
datalines;
11JAN21:13:15:00
12JUL02:12:30:02
;

Result:

Obs DateTimeValue Date Time
1 11JAN21:13:15:00 01/11/2021 1:15:00 PM
2 12JUL02:12:30:02 07/12/2002 12:30:02 PM
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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

Use the datepart and timepart functions respectively.

Data never sleeps
SASJedi
SAS Super FREQ

Try the DATEPART and TIMEPART functions:

data want;
input DateTimeValue:datetime.;
Date=datepart(DateTimeValue);
Time=timepart(DateTimeValue);
format DateTimeValue datetime. Date mmddyy10. time timeampm.;
datalines;
11JAN21:13:15:00
12JUL02:12:30:02
;

Result:

Obs DateTimeValue Date Time
1 11JAN21:13:15:00 01/11/2021 1:15:00 PM
2 12JUL02:12:30:02 07/12/2002 12:30:02 PM
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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Assuming you have a NUMERIC variable that has a count of seconds that has the DATETIME16. format attached to it so that the numbers are displayed as the strings you showed.

 

Then just use the DATEPART() and TIMEPART() functions to generate new variables that contain days and seconds.  You can then attach appropriate formats to those new variables to have the values displayed in the style you showed.

 

Let's make a sample dataset with a datetime variable.

data have;
  datetime=datetime();
  format datetime datetime19.;
run;

Now we can make a new dataset that adds the new date and time variables.

data want;
  set have;
  date=datepart(datetime);
  time=timepart(datetime);
  format date mmddyy10. time timeampm. ;
run;

Result

Obs               datetime          date       time

 1      05JUN2023:09:36:06    06/05/2023    9:36:06 AM

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