Learning SAS by Example

Chapter 9: Working with Dates

9.1  Introduction

9.2  How SAS Stores Dates

9.3  Reading Date Values from Text Data

9.4  Computing the Number of Years between Two Dates

9.5  Demonstrating a Date Constant

9.6  Computing the Current Date

9.7  Extracting the Day of the Week, Day of the Month, Month, and Year from a SAS Date

9.8  Creating a SAS Date from Month, Day, and Year Values

9.9  Substituting the 15th of the Month when the Day Value Is Missing

9.10  Using Date Interval Functions

9.11  Problems

 

9.1  Introduction

Most data sets contain date information, such as a date of birth or a transaction date. SAS can read dates in almost any commonly used format. It can calculate intervals between dates and much, much more. Read on.

9.2  How SAS Stores ...