TUw.

TUw.

Reads timer units

Category: Date and time

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples

Syntax

TUw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Requirement:

w must be 4 because the OS TIME macro returns a four-byte value.

Details

The TUw. informat reads timer unit values that are produced by an IBM mainframe operating environment and OS/VS software and converts the timer unit values to SAS time values.

There are exactly 38,400 software timer units per second. The low-order bit in a timer unit value represents approximately 26.041667 microseconds.

Use the TUw. informat to read timer unit values that are produced by an IBM mainframe on other operating environments.

Examples

input btime tu4.;

Data Lines* Results

----+----1----+

8FC7A9BC

62818.411563

*The data line is a hexadecimal representation of a binary, four-byte timer unit value. Each byte occupies one column of the input field. The result is a SAS time value that corresponds to 5:26:58.41 p.m.

Data Lines*	Results
----+----1----+
8FC7A9BC	62818.411563
*The data line is a hexadecimal representation of a binary, four-byte timer unit value. Each byte occupies one column of the input field. The result is a SAS time value that corresponds to 5:26:58.41 p.m.

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