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AZIQ1
Quartz | Level 8

Hi,

I have a dataset with date as text (2016-01-07 01:48:11.000) I want to change it to DATETIME17. format? any help?

 

Thanks

 

 

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ballardw
Super User

In a datastep you would want to create a new variable;

data want;

   set have;

   dt = input(textdate,anydtdtm32.);

  format dt datetime17.;

run;

where textdate is the name of your current variable

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ballardw
Super User

In a datastep you would want to create a new variable;

data want;

   set have;

   dt = input(textdate,anydtdtm32.);

  format dt datetime17.;

run;

where textdate is the name of your current variable

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