Calculate difference of 2 dates except not counting weekends and holidays

[Bautista]

I have the following data and I need to calculate the difference between FINISHED and STARTED minus any weekends (any Saturdays and any Sundays) and also minus any holidays that might exist between the two dates.

Obs	Started	Finished
1	Wednesday, August 28, 2013	Thursday, November 14, 2013
2	Tuesday, June 18, 2013	Monday, November 25, 2013
3	Tuesday, July 23, 2013	Friday, November 8, 2013
4	Wednesday, September 11, 2013	Friday, November 15, 2013
5	Wednesday, September 18, 2013	Thursday, December 5, 2013
6	Wednesday, July 24, 2013	Tuesday, December 3, 2013
7	Friday, October 4, 2013	Monday, November 11, 2013
8	Tuesday, August 27, 2013	Wednesday, November 27, 2013
9	Wednesday, October 2, 2013	Wednesday, November 6, 2013
10	Thursday, July 11, 2013	Monday, November 4, 2013

I know how to calculate the number of days difference between the two variables, but I don't know how to do this other additional step.

For my purposes, the holidays which exist in the above time periods are only the following holidays:

Thursday, July 04, 2013	Independence Day
Monday, September 02, 2013	Labor Day
Monday, October 14, 2013	Columbus Day
Monday, November 11, 2013	Veterans' Day
Thursday, November 28, 2013	Thanksgiving
Wednesday, December 25, 2013	Christmas Day
Tuesday, December 31, 2013	New Year's Eve

[DBailey]

I think the general solution is to build a dataset consisting of the days you consider to be "work" days and then summing those.  There's a support doc on how to do it.

26044 - Determine the number of business days between two SAS dates

proc sql;
  create table final_sql as
  select startdt format=date9.,
  stopdt format=date9.,
  (select count(*)
  from calendar
  where dt between stopdt and startdt
  and type = 'Workday') as workdays
  from test;
quit;

[pradeepalankar]

check this out:

data holiday;

input holiday date9.;

cards;

24Dec2013

25Dec2013

31Dec2013

01Jan2014

;

data real_date;

input real_date date9.;format real_date date9.;

cards;

20Dec2013

21Dec2013

22Dec2013

23Jan2013

24Dec2013

25Dec2013

26DEC2013

27DEC2013

28DEC2013

29DEC2013

30Dec2013

31DEC2013

01JAN2014

02JAN2014

05JAN2014

10JAN2014

12JAN2014

14JAN2014

15JAN2014

;

proc sql noprint;

select holiday into :holiday separated by ',' from holiday;

quit;

data test;

set real_date(where=(weekday(real_date) not in (1,7) and real_date not in (&holiday.)));

Diff=intck('day','14JAN2014'd,real_date);

run;

[art297]

Take a look at Chris Hemdinger's blog post at:

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2011/05/09/calculating-the-number-of-working-days-between-two-...