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LeeJ
Calcite | Level 5

Hi ,

I would like a date one day away from the value in a datetime field. My new field is getting created with one day subtracted but all of the times are not preserved. They all get set to 00:00:00.

newdt2=intnx('dtday',datetime(),-1) ;

or

newdt1=intnx('dtday',mydatetimefield,-1) ;

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Lee

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art297
Opal | Level 21

You are leaving off one parameter, namely 's', to keep the time the same.  i.e.,

  newdt2=intnx('dtday',datetime(),-1,'s') ;

Doc_Duke
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

You are doing nothing wrong.  Check the "alignment" documentation for intnx.

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lefunctionsref/63354/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p10v3sa3i4k...

The "old fashioned" way to subtract one day from a datetime variable is to simply subtract 1 day's worth of seconds.

newdt = olddt - 24*60*60;

Doc Muhlbaier

Duke

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