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SAS Dates: Center of Excellence Data Warehousing

SAS uses the number of days since January 1, 1960 to represent dates internally, with positive numbers for dates after that and negative for before. It discusses the three main date formats used in SAS - calendar, Julian, and SAS date - and functions like DATEJUL, DATEPART, DAY, MONTH, and YEAR to convert between them. The document also outlines important informats and formats used to read in and write out dates in various common date formats.

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SAS Dates: Center of Excellence Data Warehousing

SAS uses the number of days since January 1, 1960 to represent dates internally, with positive numbers for dates after that and negative for before. It discusses the three main date formats used in SAS - calendar, Julian, and SAS date - and functions like DATEJUL, DATEPART, DAY, MONTH, and YEAR to convert between them. The document also outlines important informats and formats used to read in and write out dates in various common date formats.

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SAS Dates

Last Updated : 29 June, 2004

Center of Excellence
Data Warehousing
Dates
 Three types of Date Formats commonly used
 Calendar Date
 Julian Date
 SAS Date
 Value for a SAS date is the number of days difference from the date of 1st
January 1960.
 Dates after 01/01/1960 are positive values while any prior dates are stored as
negative integers.
 DateInternal SAS value
 25th March 1959 -282
 31st December 1959 -1
 1st January 1960 0
 2nd January 1960 1
 25th March 1960 84
 1st March 2001 15035
Dates
 One format of a date can be displayed as another format easily, by
using pre-set formats.
 An important thing to note is that although the way the value prints is
different, the internal value (the number representing the date) does
not change.
 Some examples of commonly used formats are given below:
Format Used Result
Date. 01MAR01
Date9. 01MAR2001
Day. 1
Julday. 60
Julian. 01060
Mmddyy. 03/01/01
Month. 3
Monyy. MAR01
Qtr. 1
Year. 2001
Yymmdd. 01-03-01
Yyqr. 2001QI
Dates
 Dates Functions
 Datejul
 DATEJUL(julian-date)
– Converts a Julian date to a SAS date
 Example
date=datejul(juldate)
juldate=2002186
date=15526
 Datepart
 DATEPART(calendar date)
 Converts a date extracted through SQL procedure to a SAS date

 Example
date=datepart(caldate)
juldate=July 4 2002:11:30:01
date=15526
Dates
 Dates Functions
 Day
 DAY(date)
– Returns a day of the month from the SAS date
 Example
cdate=day(date)
date=15526
cdate=4
 Month
 Month(date)
– Returns the month from the SAS date
 Example
cdate=day(date)
cdate=15526
cdate=7
Dates

 Dates Functions
 Year
 YEAR(date)
– Returns the year from the SAS date
 Example
cdate=year(date)
date=15526
cdate=2
 Timepart
 TIMEPART(calendar date)
– Converts a time extracted through SQL procedure to a SAS date
 The time gets converted to a running number
Dates

 Dates Informats
 Dates are read in, using an informat to convert the raw data
from the input file to a SAS date for internal storage
 INFORMATs are used to read a variable. The following
INFORMATS are used in case of Dates

 DATEw.
– Reads dates in form : ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy
 Julianw.
– Reads Julian dates in form : yydd or yyyyddd
 MMDDYYw.
– Reads dates in form : mmddyy or mmddyyyy
Dates

 Dates Formats
 FORMATS give SAS special instructions to write a variable or
date
 The following FORMATS are used in case of Dates

 DATEw.
– Writes SAS value in the form of ddmmmyy
 DAYw.
– Writes the day of the month from a SAS date value
 Julianw.
– Writes a Julian date form a SAS date value
 MMDDYYw.
– Writes SAS date values in form mmddyy
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