EURDFDTw. Informat

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	18
Range:	13-40

The date values must be in the form ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy, followed by a blank or special character, and then the time values as hh:mm:ss.ss. The syntax for the date is represented as follows:

dd

is an integer from 01-31 that represents the day of the month.

mmm

is the first three letters of the month name.

yy or yyyy

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

hh

is the number of hours ranging from 00-23,

mm

is the number of minutes ranging from 00-59,

ss.ss

is the number of seconds ranging from 00-59 with the fraction of a second following the decimal point.

The EURDFDTw. informat requires values for both the date and the time; however, the ss.ss portion is optional.

Note:   SAS interprets a two-digit year as belonging to the 100-year span that is defined by the YEARCUTOFF= system option.  

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 informat, SAS ignores the DFLANG= system option.

This INPUT statement uses the value of the DFLANG= system option to read the international datetime values in German.

options dflang=german;
input date eurdfdt20.;

This INPUT statement uses the German language prefix to read the international datetime values in German. The value of the DFLANG= option, therefore, is ignored.

input date deudfdt20.;

----+----1----+----2

23dez99:10:03:17.2

1261562597.2

23dez1999:10:03:17.2

1261562597.2

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