Scripting Guide - SAS

Chapter 6 Types of Data 111
Date-Time Functions and Formats
Table 6.2 Date-Time Functions (Continued)
Function
Long Date(date)
Explanation
Returns a string representation for the specified date. The format is based
on your computer’s regional setting. So for the English (United States)
locale, the date is formatted like "Sunday, February 29, 2004". Even
if you are running JMP in English with a different locale, the locale format
is applied.
MDYHMS(date) Returns a string representation for the date supplied, formatted like "2/
29/2004 00:02:20 AM".
Minute(date-time)
Month(date)
InFormat(string,
"format")
Parse Date(string,
"format")
Second(date-time)
Short Date(date)
Time Of Day(date)
Today()
Week Of Year(date)
Year(date)
Returns an integer representation for the minute part of the date-time
value supplied.
Returns an integer representation for the month of the date supplied.
Parses a string of a given format and returns datetime value expressed as if
surrounded by As Date(), returning the date in ddMonyyyy format.
Returns an integer representation for the second part of the date-time
value supplied.
Returns a string representation for the date supplied, in the format mm/
dd/yyyy, regardless of locale (for example, "02/29/2004").
Returns an integer representation for the time of day of the date-time
supplied.
Returns the current date and time expressed as the number of seconds
since midnight, 1 January 1904. No arguments are accepted, but the
parentheses are still needed.
Returns an integer representation for the week of the year of the date
supplied. Weeks are Sunday–Saturday. Note that the first Sunday of the
year begins week 2.
Returns an integer representation for the year of the specified date.
Examples of Common Date-Time Functions
You can use any function that returns seconds within a function that returns a date-time.
For example, if today is May 19, 2011 and the time is 11:37:52 AM, Today() returns the number of
seconds, and the functions that follow show that number of seconds since the base time in different
date-time formats:
Today()