About This Book

Purpose

This book is designed to provide a detailed look at how the SAS date facility works, including an in-depth look at intervals and the interval functions, ISO 8601 date and datetime handling, and the NLS formats and informats. It is intended to serve as both a reference and a teaching tool. Ultimately, this book will allow the reader to become more confident in their daily work with dates, times, and datetimes in SAS.

Is This Book for You?

This book is aimed at beginning to intermediate SAS programmers, or those who work with ISO 8601 data, intervals, and/or reporting in multiple languages.

What’s New in This Edition

This new edition includes updated information to reflect the changes in version 9 of SAS; an expanded discussion ...

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