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deengyn
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi all, 

I currently have the date (varname: serv_date) presented in the format of  (DDMMMYYYY HH:MM:SS). Currently, I'm trying to reformat it so that the table would only contain ddmmmyyyy.

I've tried some solutions such as ...

proc sql; 
create table test as 
select serv_date format = date9.
from plastics_fnl; 
quit;

But the output is quite odd and unexpected. 

Date issues.PNG

 

May someone help identify a solution as well as explain what went wrong in the code I provided?

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

How about 

proc sql; 
create table test as 
select datepart(serv_date) as serv_date format = date9.
from plastics_fnl; 
quit;

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

How about 

proc sql; 
create table test as 
select datepart(serv_date) as serv_date format = date9.
from plastics_fnl; 
quit;
deengyn
Obsidian | Level 7
Amazing! Thank you for the quick response and help!
ballardw
Super User

If a value is a SAS datetime value then the units are SECONDS, if a date then the units are DAYS. So you cannot use a date9 format to display datetime. If you assign a datetime9. format then that will appear similar to a date9 format.

 

OR use the datepart(dtvariable) function to create date value.

 

PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

You don't need to create a new date variable. All you need to do is assign the DTDATE format.

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmmvacdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarget=n1...

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