Days of the week

[paperboy22]

I wanted to double check that 1= Sunday, 2= Monday, etc. because I was able to label the days of the week for the patients' last appointment (i.e. Jane Smith was day 3, Laura Smellner was day 5), but when I used the format weekdate9. to get the actual day it made 3= Monday, 5= Wednesday, etc.

DATA scheduling(drop=bdate);
input patient $ 1-17 bdate :mmddyy10. lastappt :mmddyy10.;
Day=weekday(lastappt);
format bdate lastappt mmddyy10. day weekdate9.;
DATALINES;
Jane Smith 10/25/1985 06/15/2010
Laura Smellner 10/20/1947 06/17/2010
Jenna Jones 10/23/1964 07/01/2010
Beth Bonders 10/26/1939 07/14/2010
Grace Johson 10/19/1958 07/29/2010
Mary Contrary 10/22/1981 06/30/2010
Jennifer Palermo 10/21/1953 09/03/2010
Ann Lewis 10/24/1975 08/15/2010
Linda Bentner 10/13/1938 09/04/2010
Francine Scalia 10/14/1963 09/04/2010
Leah Thill 10/15/1949 08/01/2010
Caroline Harris 10/16/1968 08/11/2010
Olivia Knupf 10/17/1972 07/31/2010
Maya Angelson 10/18/1961 07/17/2010
;
RUN;

[LinusH]

Sunday is 1.

[muratatik · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You use weekday function and it's returns integer that represents day like 1=Sunday 2=Monday etc.

Then you format with this day varible with weekdate9.

Thats meaning you getting which day of 4 June 1960 when day=3

I suggest you directly convert lastappt variable,

Day=put(lastappt,weekdate9.) 

[paperboy22]

Thank you!