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The CALENDAR Procedure

DUR Statement


Specifies the variable that contains the duration of each activity.
Alias: DURATION
Calendar type: Schedule
Interaction: If you use both a DUR and a FIN statement, then DUR is ignored.
Tip: To produce a schedule calendar, you must use either a DUR or FIN statement.
Featured in: All schedule calendars (see Examples: CALENDAR Procedure)

DUR variable;


Required Arguments

variable

contains the duration of each activity in a schedule calendar.

Range: The duration can be a real or integral value.
Restriction: This variable must be in the activities data set.
See also: For more information on activity durations, see Activities Data Set and Calendar Data Set

Duration

  • Duration is measured inclusively from the start of the activity (as given in the START variable). In the output, any activity that lasts part of a day is displayed as lasting a full day.

  • The INTERVAL= option in a PROC CALENDAR statement automatically sets the unit of the duration variable, depending on its own value as follows:

    INTERVAL= Default Length of the Duration Unit
    DAY (the default) 24 hours
    WORKDAY 8 hours

  • You can override the default length of a duration unit by using

    • the DAYLENGTH= option

    • a D_LENGTH variable in the CALEDATA= data set.

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