Systematize Date Title For Free

SAS date values are written in a SAS program by placing the dates in single quotes followed by a D. The date is represented by the day of the month, the three letter abbreviation of the month name, and the year. For example, SAS reads the value '17OCT1991'D the same as 11612, the SAS date value for 17 October 1991.

A Date variable can be initialized with a value whose type is: Date. DateTime: only the date will be taken into account. Character string, in YYYYMMDD format (YYYY: year, MM: Month, DD: Day)

The approach is to take the following steps: convert the SAS date value into a character string using the PUT function. concatenate it with the string of the time values and. convert it back to datetime using the INPUT function.

The DATETIMEw. d format shows SAS datetime values in the form ddmmmyy:hh:mm:ss. ss.

You can use the TIMESTAMP function with no arguments to get the current date and time. You can use the TIMESTAMP function with the int64 argument to get the current date and time as the int64 data type. You can use the TIMESTAMP function with the string argument to get the current date and time as the string data type.

Or skip the data step and use the %sysfunc() macro function to call the date() function and apply the format. %let datestamp=%sysfunc(date(),mmddyyd10.); You can even eliminate the extra macro variable. %let filePath="/sasFolder/MyFileName(%sysfunc(date(),mmddyyd10.)).

To place the date in a title simply specify the variable name. The &SYSDATE macro variable is easy to use but cannot be formatted. It will always be in the form of ddmonyy. Also this date will, like the output date, reflect the start date of the current SAS session.