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Quartz | Level 8 ari
Quartz | Level 8

Hi ,

 

Is there an easy way to convert  time values in time5. format into nominal time values.?

Example: 8:30 as 8.5

                16:30 as 16.5

                17:45 as 17.75

 

 

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

One way:

data want;
  time="08:30"t;
  number=hour(time)+ ((10 / (60/minute(time)))/10);
  output;
  time="17:45"t;
  number=hour(time)+ ((10 / (60/minute(time)))/10);
  output;  
  format time time5.;
run;
Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Since time values are just counts of seconds, a simple division and rounding will do it:

data test;
input time time5.;
time_nom = round(time/3600,.01);
format
  time time5.
  time_nom 5.2
;
cards;
08:30
16:30
17:45
;
run;

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