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JULIANw. Format



Writes date values as Julian dates in the form yyddd or yyyyddd.
Category: Date and Time
Alignment: left

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples
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Syntax

JULIANw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default: 5
Range: 5-7
Tip: If w is 5, the JULIANw. format writes the date with a two-digit year. If w is 7, the JULIANw. format writes the date with a four-digit year.

Details

The JULIANw. format writes SAS date values in the form yyddd or yyyyddd, where

yy or yyyy

is a two-digit or four-digit integer that represents the year.

ddd

is the number of the day, 1-365 (or 1-366 for leap years), in that year.


Examples

The example table uses the input value of 16794, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to December 24, 2005 (the 358th day of the year).

SAS Statement Results
 
----+----1
put date julian5.;
05358
put date julian7.; 
2005358


See Also

Functions:

DATEJUL Function

JULDATE Function

Informat:

JULIANw. Informat

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