Date time format

[r3570]

Dear All,

How to convert the below datetime format from character to numeric and vice-versa ?

2021-03-04T08:34

Thanks

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

SAS provides the E8601 informats/formats for this:

data test;
numdt = input("2021-03-04T08:34",e8601dt16.);
format numdt e8601dt16.;
run;

[r3570]

Thank you sooo much !!

[Peter_C]

See the paper
VFORMAT Lets SAS® Do the Format Searching
At http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/1744-2014.pdf