Date:         Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:01:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject:      Re: Date/time of execution of program
Comments: To: peter.flom@NDRI.ORG
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"Peter Flom" <peter.flom@NDRI.ORG> wrote:

>Hello all
>
>In the standard options the date and time printed on the output are
for when you last started SAS.

More precisely, they show when you started the session in which the
code is executing.  On other words, if you have a session A, and then
start session B, session A's log will show session A's time, not session
B's, even though session B was the last one started.

>I would like to have the time when the particular SAS program started
running.

I think you mean "current data step or PROC", not "program".  Most
people, in my experience, use "program" to refer to an entire SAS
session or job step.





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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Development Manager, Technical Group
METRICS Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA