Sas 1960. Unfortunately records detailing the aim and tasks of this patrol are very limited. General discussion and chats.
The today function produces the current date in the form of a sas date value which is the number of days since january 1 1960. Any day before 1 1 1960 is a negative number and any day after that is a positive number. Rules announcements of the sas forum.
Sas date values are the stored internally as the number of days between january 1 1960 and a specified date.
Dates after january 1 1960 are stored as positive numbers. Sas date values account for all leap year days including the leap year day in the year 2000. Anyways you should be able to use the sas date as follows. Dates before january 1 1960 are stored as negative numbers.