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arcacha
Fluorite | Level 6

Greeting SAS nation

 

I’m trying to figure out how you get the result 1546387200 in the link below. I understand how you calculated 1640995200 as that’s the number of seconds from Jan 1 1960 to Jan 1 2012 but the other number is a little confusing.

 

Thanks

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/vdmmlcdc/8.1/leforinforref/p1hsn1ji141r4zn0z3xm2dthop6a.htm#n0t...

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BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

I suggest to provide feedback to the writers of the documentation. Use the feedback "button" in the top right corner for this.

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ErikLund_Jensen
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Hi @arcacha 

It is a typing error in the documentation, or maybe a half finished update, because it is not true that 1640995200 and 1546387200 both formats to 01jan12 with the datetime format. The lower number is Jan 1. 2009.

 

157  data _null_;
158      a = 1640995200;
159      put a datetime.;
160      a = 1546387200;
161      put a datetime.;
162  run;

01JAN12:00:00:00
01JAN09:00:00:00

 

arcacha
Fluorite | Level 6
Categorization: Unclassified

Thanks @ErikLund_Jensen



Yeah I though there was something amiss here. Hopefully the error can be corrected.



Cheers


BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

I suggest to provide feedback to the writers of the documentation. Use the feedback "button" in the top right corner for this.

Bruno_SAS_0-1625555148232.png

 

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