The HHMMSSw. informat reads time values with and without delimiters. It differs from the TIMEw. informat since the TIMEw. informat requires delimiters between hours, minutes, and seconds.

Beginning with SAS^® 9.3, the HHMMSSw. informat reads values with/without colons/decimals as follows:

#colons    decimal?      examples       computation
0          no            1,123,12345    01:00:00, 12:30:00, 12:34:50
0          yes           1.23,123.45    00:00:01.23, 00:02:03.45
1          no            12:34          12:34:00
1          yes           12:34.56       00:12:34.56
2          no            12:34:56       12:34:56
2          yes           12:34:56.7     12:34:56.7

If there are two colons, the input is processed like the TIMEw. informat.

If there is one colon and no decimal, we logically append :00 to the value.

If there is one colon and a decimal, we logically prepend :00 to the value.

If there is no colon and no decimal, we logically append zeros to six digits, then read two digits for hour, two digits for minutes, and two digits for seconds.

If there is no colon but there is a decimal, the input is treated as the number of seconds + fractions of seconds.

To obtain the new behavior prior to SAS 9.3, use the B8601TM informat.

Operating System and Release Information

data _null_;
   x=input('12:30:45',hhmmss.);
   y=input('123045',hhmmss.);
   put x=time8. y=time8.;
run;

1430  data _null_;
1431  x=input('12:30:45',hhmmss.);
1432  y=input('123045',hhmmss.);
1433  put x=time8. y=time8.;
1434  run;

x=12:30:45 y=12:30:45

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.3_M2 is available at: