Date:         Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:37:04 -0800
Reply-To:     Andrew James Llwellyn Cary <ajlcary@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Andrew James Llwellyn Cary <ajlcary@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Organization: Cary Consulting Services
Subject:      Re: Help with Date Conversion

Michael Babyak wrote:
>
> Dear SAS folks,
>
> I was wondering if anyone could offer us some advice on the
> following problem:
>
> We have two variables, one for time of day in hh:mm:ss
> format, which was entered in clock time (ie, 1 through 12
> hours), and a second coded as AM or PM.  We'd like to
> recode these two variables into one military time variable.
> Can anyone offer a way to do this?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Mike Babyak
>
> --
> Mike Babyak, PhD
> Behavioral Cardiology Laboratory
> Department of Psychiatry
> Box 3119
> Duke University Medical Center
> Durham, NC 27710
> (919) 684-8843
> (919) 684-8629
> babya001@mc.duke.edu
 
Just for fun. let's go with the most obfuscated code:
 
Assumes your hh:mm:ss data is in a SAS time values called TIME
             AM/PM flag is in a 2 byte character variable called
             AMPM
 
DATA new;
    set old;
    TIME = TIME + (AMPM='PM') * 12 * 60 * 60;
run;
 
 
Andy
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