Date:         Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:28:49 -0800
Reply-To:     sunny <praveencbharadwaj@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         sunny <praveencbharadwaj@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: DATE INFORMATS AND FORMATS
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Tabachenek,
thank u very much for clearing my doubt in the date informats and
formats.
by using this i can really work on any datetime formats and informats.

This has helped me in  my project and made me to use in comparison of
two date columns.
thank u very much.
Sunny.

Arthur Tabachneck wrote:
> Praveen,
>
> SAS dates and times are not really my forte but, since no one else has
> answered your post, you could use something like the following:
>
> data have;
>   input @1 rawdata $16.;
>   format date date9.;
>   format time hhmm.;
>   date=input(substr(rawdata,1,6),ddmmyy6.);
>   time=input(substr(rawdata,7,8),TIME8.);
>   cards;
> 120107 12:30 am
> 120107 1:30 pm
> 110107 12:30 am
> 110107 4:30 am
> ;
> run;
>
> Art
> ------------
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:25:19 -0800, sunny <praveencbharadwaj@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >can u please explain me the date informats and formats.
> >if i have the ddmmyy 12:30 am and mmddyy 12:30 am
> >As such can u please explain me how to read the date from the .csv SAS
> >dataset
> >for creating the SAS dataset.
> >
> >Praveen Cheruvu.