| Additional NLS Language Elements |
Writes international date values as the name of the month, the
day, and the year in the form dd month-name yy (or yyyy).
| Category: |
Date and Time
|
| Alignment: |
right
|
-
w
-
specifies the width of the output field.
| Default: |
depends on the language
prefix you use. The following table shows the default value for each language:
|
Language |
Maximum |
Default |
|
Afrikaans (AFR) |
37 |
29 |
|
Catalan (CAT) |
40 |
16 |
|
Croatian (CRO) |
40 |
16 |
|
Czech (CSY) |
40 |
16 |
|
Danish (DAN) |
18 |
18 |
|
Dutch (NLD) |
37 |
29 |
|
Finnish (FIN) |
20 |
20 |
|
French (FRA) |
18 |
18 |
|
German (DEU) |
18 |
18 |
|
Hungarian (HUN) |
40 |
18 |
|
Italian (ITA) |
17 |
17 |
|
Macedonian (MAC) |
40 |
17 |
|
Norwegian (NOR) |
17 |
17 |
|
Polish (POL) |
40 |
20 |
|
Portuguese (PTG) |
37 |
23 |
|
Russian (RUS) |
40 |
16 |
|
Slovenian (SLO) |
40 |
17 |
|
Spanish (ESP) |
24 |
24 |
|
Swedish (SVE) |
17 |
17 |
|
Swiss-French (FRS) |
17 |
17 |
|
Swiss-German (DES) |
18 |
18 |
|
| Range: |
3-(maximum width) |
| Tip: |
If the value for w is too small to include the complete day of the week and
the month, SAS abbreviates as necessary. |
The EURDFWDXw.
format writes SAS date values in the form dd month-name yy
or dd month-name yyyy:
-
dd
-
is an integer that represents the day of
the month.
-
month-name
-
is the name of the month.
-
yy or yyyy
-
is a two-digit or four-digit integer that
represents the year.
You can set the language for the SAS session with the
DFLANG= system option. (Because the SAS Installation Representative usually
sets a default language for the site, you might be able to skip this step.)
If you work with dates in multiple languages, you can replace the EUR prefix
with a language prefix. See DFLANG= System Option: OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS
for the list of language prefixes. When you specify the language prefix in
the format, SAS ignores the DFLANG= option.
Note: The EUR-date formats
require European character sets and encodings. Some formats will not work
correctly using non-European encodings. When running in a DBCS environment,
the default format width and max width will be larger than in the single byte
system to allow formats to use a double byte representation of certain characters.
However, you must use a session encoding that supports the European characters
set like UTF-8. ![[cautionend]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
The EURDFWKXw.
format is the same as the EURDFWDXw. format except
that EURDFWKX w. format adds the day-of-week
in front of dd.
The example table uses the input value 15342, which
is the SAS date value that corresponds to January 2, 2002. The first PUT statement
assumes that the DFLANG= system option is set to Dutch.
options dflang=dutch;
The second PUT statement uses the Dutch language
prefix in the format to write the name of the month in Dutch. The third PUT
statement uses the Italian language prefix in the format to write the name
of the month in Italian. Therefore, the value of the DFLANG= option is ignored.
|
Statements |
Results |
|
----+----1----+----2----+----3
|
put day eurdfwdx29.;
|
2 januari 2002
|
put day nlddfwdx29.;
|
2 januari 2002
|
put day itadfwdx17.;
|
02 Gennaio 1998
|
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