Date:         Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:45:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Quentin McMullen <Quentin_McMullen@ABTASSOC.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Quentin McMullen <Quentin_McMullen@ABTASSOC.COM>
Subject:      Re: More details on Date and Time
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One possible addition to Robert's suggestion is to make a macro which when
submitted automatically updates the footnote with the current date and time.
Below is a macro I have used for this purpose.

I then added a macro call to a hotkey (submit '%foot'; submit;), so that when
run in interactive mode the time in the footnote is updated every time I
submit a block of code.

%macro foot;
footnote "%sysfunc(date(),downame.),
%sysfunc(trim(%qsysfunc(left(%qsysfunc(date(),worddate.)))))
%sysfunc(left(%qsysfunc(time(),time5.)))";
%mend foot;

HTH

--Q.

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Subject: Re: More details on Date and Time
Author:  "Workman; Robert" <rworkman@CARBOMEDICS.COM> at internet
Date:    6/23/00 11:09 AM


Seems like a reasonable request, unfortunately I don't know of any way.  One
thing you might try is to use OPTIONS NODATE and get rid of the date
altogether in the title.  Then add your time macro to a footnote statement.
This code would have to be run each time you created output.

For instance


%let tm = %sysfunc(date(), weekdate.) %sysfunc(time(), time.);
footnote "&tm";

*** footnote:

Friday, June 23, 2000 11:14:02

Rob Workman


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Flom [SMTP:peter.flom@NDRI.ORG]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:31 AM
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      More details on Date and Time
>
> Two people already replied to my earlier request for printing the date and
> time with suggestions along the lines of
>
> %put %sysfunc(datetime(), datetime.);
>
>
> Thanks for the prompt replies
>
> Is there a way to make this the default, so that I don't need to put this
> line in every time?  I can't foresee ever needing the date and time when I
> last started SAS in my output
>
> Thanks again
>
> Peter