TODSTAMPw.

TODSTAMPw.

Reads an eight-byte time-of-day stamp

Category: Date and Time

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples

Syntax

TODSTAMPw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Requirement:

w must be 8 because the OS TIME macro or the STCK System/370 instruction on IBM mainframes each return an eight-byte value.

Details

The TODSTAMPw. informat reads time-of-day clock values that are produced by IBM mainframe operating systems and converts the clock values to SAS datetime values.

If the time-of-day value is all 0s, TODSTAMPw. results in a missing value.

Use TODSTAMPw. on other operating environments to read time-of-day values that are produced by an IBM mainframe.

Examples

input btime todstamp8.;

Data Lines* Results

----+----1----+----2

B361183D5FB80000

1262303998

*The data line is a hexadecimal representation of a binary, 8-byte time-of-day clock value. Each byte occupies one column of the input field. The result is a SAS datetime value that corresponds to December 31, 1999, 11:59:58 PM.

Data Lines*	Results
----+----1----+----2
B361183D5FB80000	1262303998
*The data line is a hexadecimal representation of a binary, 8-byte time-of-day clock value. Each byte occupies one column of the input field. The result is a SAS datetime value that corresponds to December 31, 1999, 11:59:58 PM.

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