HOURw.d

HOURw.d

Writes time values as hours and decimal fractions of hours

Category: Date and Time

Alignment: right

Syntax

HOURw.d

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default:	2
Range:	2-20

d

optionally specifies the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in the hour value. Therefore, SAS prints decimal fractions of the hour.

Requirement:	must be less than w
Range:	0-19

SAS rounds hours based on the value of minutes in the SAS time value.

The example table uses the input value of 41400, which is the SAS time value that corresponds to 11:30 AM.

SAS Statements Results

----+----1

put time hour4.1;

11.5

See Also

SAS Statements	Results
	----+----1
put time hour4.1;	11.5