Date:         Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:24:40 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: Calculating weeks and days

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:59:35 -0400, Ellen Rains <ERains@NERI.ORG> wrote:

>I need to calculate the number of weeks and days between two dates.  I am
>using the following code, but not getting the right results.
>
>
>weeks_days = round((date1-date2)\7),1.);
>
>
>Any suggestions???
>
>Ellen


yes: use the SAS function INTCK for that:

data test;
  d1="09jan2000"d;
  d2=today();
  weeks=intck("week",d1,d2);
  put weeks=;
run;

The "days between two dates are simply the difference:

days=d2-d1;