Date:         Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:18:35 +1100
Reply-To:     Scott Bass <sas_l_739.at.yahoo.dot.com.dot.au@PESTO.CC.UGA.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Scott Bass <sas_l_739.at.yahoo.dot.com.dot.au@PESTO.CC.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Record start and end time for entire program in log
Comments: To: sas-l@uga.edu

I'm doing this from memory...if it doesn't work exactly as typed, well, you
can always read the doc ;-)

%let start=%sysfunc(datetime());
data _null_;
   set my_sas_program;
run;
%let end=%sysfunc(datetime());
%let elapsed=%sysevalf(&end-&start);
%put &elapsed;

"sas 9 bi user" <sas9bi@GMAIL.COM> wrote in message
news:af7d406c0810261512s6021b160v9f01ea99989a6586@mail.gmail.com...
> All -
>
> I have a long program that takes some time to run.
>
> How do I create a macro variable that prints in the log the time the
> program
> started, ended, and outputs how long the process took in hours, mins,
> seconds?
>
> Say the below took 5 hours to run, please let me know how I could add some
> macro vars to calculate the total running time of all 3 processes below.
>
> /* 1st step*/
> data b;
> set a;
> s = 1;
> run;
>
> /* 2nd step*/
> proc sort data=b;
> by id;
> run;
>
> /* 3rd step*/
> proc print data=b;
> run;
>
> So I would like to know how long it took for step 1, 2 and 3 to run.
> How do I put macro variables to output that after step 3 is done and have
> it
> show in the log?
>
> Thanks!!!