Dear,
In my data the following values present for a time variable.
When I used put function to convert to character, I am getting different values eventhough the time values are same. Any suggestions. Please help. Thanks
code; Time1=put(time,time8.);
Data
ID Time(numeric)
1 00:00:00
1 00:00:00
output getting;
ID Time time1
1 00:00:00 0:00:00
1 00:00:00 24:00:00
Are there no other components to the date, such as a decimal or a day value?
Most likely this is a numerical precision issue. If you round it to the nearest integer and format it should work as expected.
Try
time_char = put(round(time, 1), time8.);
FYI - I could not replicate your issue.
Assign a format of best32. to your time variable, and then look at the values; you will find that there is a small fractional aberration.
And once you've verified that you have a "numerical precision artifact" in your time value, just use the round() function to get rid of it.
timeval = round(timeval,.000001);
will remove a small fractional error while preserving time down to microseconds.
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