| Automatic Macro Variables |
Contains the day of the week that a SAS job or session began
executing.
| Type: |
Automatic macro variable (read only)
|
You can
use SYSDAY to check the current day before executing code that you want to
run on certain days of the week, provided you initialized your SAS session
today.
The following statement identifies the day and date when a SAS session
started running.
%put This SAS session started running on: &sysday, &sysdate9.;
When this statement executes on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 for a SAS
session that began executing on Monday, December 17, 2007, the following line
is written to the SAS log:
This SAS session started running on: Monday, 17DEC2007
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