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zimcom
Pyrite | Level 9

Greetings!

I want the date and time displayed as "2018-09-15T14:52:22" in my report and I found the foolowing code in SAS help, but when I tried the output still show up as "1852642342", not "2018-09-15T14:52:22".

 

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarge...

 

What do I missed??

 

data one;
mydt='15sep2018 14:52:22'dt;
put mydt e8601dt25.3;
run;

 

Value of mydtResult

1852642342

2018-09-15T14:52:22.000

 

 

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20
format mydt e8601dt25.3;

PUT statement writes to the LOG. However you need a format statement to display the formatted value in your output dataset. Hope this helps? 

data one;
mydt='15sep2018 14:52:22'dt;
format mydt e8601dt25.3;
run;

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20
format mydt e8601dt25.3;

PUT statement writes to the LOG. However you need a format statement to display the formatted value in your output dataset. Hope this helps? 

data one;
mydt='15sep2018 14:52:22'dt;
format mydt e8601dt25.3;
run;
zimcom
Pyrite | Level 9
Thnak you su much, you have been always so helpful!!!

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