SYSDAY

SYSDAY

Contains the day of the week that a SAS job or session began executing

Type: Automatic macro variable (read only)

Details
Example
	Identifying the Day When a SAS Session Started

Details

You can use SYSDAY to check the current day before executing code that you want to run on certain days of the week, provided you initialized your SAS session today.

Example

Example 1: Identifying the Day When a SAS Session Started

The following statement identifies the day and date when a SAS session started running.

%put This SAS session started running on: &sysday, &sysdate.;

Executing this statement on Thursday, December 18, 1997 for a SAS session that began executing on Tuesday, December 16, 1997, writes this to the SAS log:

This SAS session started running on: Tuesday, 16DEC97

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