SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Using Date and Time Formats

Overview

Remember that when Perm.Aprbills is printed, the values for DateIn and DateOut appear as SAS date values.

options yearcutoff=1920; 
data perm.aprbills; 
   infile aprdata; 
   input LastName $8. @10 DateIn mmddyy8. +1 DateOut 
      mmddyy8. +1 RoomRate 6. @35 EquipCost 6.; 
   Days=dateout-datein+1; 
   RoomCharge=days*roomrate; 
   Total=roomcharge+equipcost; 
run; 
>proc print data=perm.aprbills; 
run;

PROC PRINT Output for the above Example

SAS provides many specialized date and time formats that enable you to specify how ...