With a modern version of SAS you could add the TRIMMED keyword to make sure the generated macro variable did not contain leading spaces.
So let's make a sample dataset with a datetime variable.
data test;
start = datetime();
format start datetime19. ;
run;
Now let's query that to get the raw number of seconds since 1960 into a macro variable.
proc sql noprint;
select start format=32. into :start trimmed from test;
quit;
Results:
20 %put &=start;
START=1928747688
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AFAIK the SAS editor (prior to version 9.4?) only runs on a server and not from a client. The icon you display would indicate version 9.3 and older versions. The newest incarnation as editor runs as a web application. the Student version within VMWare does seem to need a pretty highend desk/lap top to run with any kind of performance
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