Date:         Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:39:23 -0500
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From:         SAS_learner <proccontents@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Can I Ignore the Time Part Safely without affect the value
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I can Do it, but Just thinking what may go wrong if I Ignore the time part,
Just for the sake of argument. The Other day when I have changed a character
day to Numeric day and back to Character day to check I got right results
but got a different results when I have used  datetime informat so I was
wondering why ??

On Nov 5, 2007 9:07 PM, Don Henderson <donaldjhenderson@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Why don't you just use the DATEPART function?
>
> Regards,
> donh
>
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> Subject: Can I Ignore the Time Part Safely without affect the value
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> Hello Guys,
>
> I am changing the datetime Variable which is in format of YYYY-MM-DDTHH:SS
> (Eg: 2007-01-29T10:27)  into numerical variable to calculate study day
> variable (SDTM standards) , While converting them to numerical values I am
> using informat of yymmdd10. Using this informat I am getting  numerical
> value but I am ignoring the time part, is it right way of  doing ?? is it
> going  to make any difference in numerical value of the date ??? I can't
> think of possible implication of this , I am thinking that if the time
> changes to 24 Hr automatically it would be another day Right ??
>
> Any Inputs ??
>
> thanks
>
>