EURDFDTw. Informat

Reads international datetime values in the form ddmmmyy hh:mm:ss.ss or ddmmmyyyy hh:mm:ss.ss.

Category:

Date and Time

Syntax

Details

Example

Syntax

EURDFDTw.

Syntax Description

w: specifies the width of the input field.

Default:18

Range:13–40

Details

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:

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.

The syntax for time is represented as follows:

is the number of hours ranging from 00–23,

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: 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.

Example

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.;

options dflang=german;
data _null_;
input date eurdfdt20.;
 put date;
datalines;
23dez99:10:03:17.2
23dez1999:10:03:17.2
;

Values	Results
	----+----1----+----2
23dez99:10:03:17.2	1261562597.2
23dez1999:10:03:17.2	1261562597.2