Date:         Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:47:27 -0800
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From:         juanwu36@HOTMAIL.COM
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Subject:      why DOWNAME format gave wrong result???
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Dear SAS_L,

I run the following code the other day (01/14/2005), somehow the
weekday result with DOWNAME format is wrong. Can anybody explain why is
this happenning? (I am using SAS9.1 with Windows XP).

Thanks a lot!

Juan

*** the code***;
data _null_;
date = date();
day = weekday(date);
time = time();
put date date. ', ' day DOWNAME. ', ' time time.;
put date date. ', ' day ', ' time time.;


today = today();
put today WEEKDATE.;
run;


*** log ***;
595  data _null_;
596      date = date();
597      day = weekday(date);
598      time = time();
599      put date date. ', ' day DOWNAME. ', ' time time.;
600      put date date. ', ' day ', ' time time.;
601
602
603      today = today();
604      put today WEEKDATE.;
605  run;

14JAN05,  Thursday, 15:51:57
14JAN05,  6, 15:51:57
Friday, January 14, 2005
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time           0.00 seconds
cpu time            0.00 seconds