When the EURDFDT format is used with the system option DFLANG=FINNISH, the format EURDFDT becomes FINDFDTw.d. Like all formats, the output values should be according to width and decimal specifications of the format. The output values are being written with 2 less decimal places than specified by the format.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows Vista	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	9.1 TS1M3 SP1
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP1
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP1
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP1
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP1
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		z/OS	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		OpenVMS Alpha	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0
		Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP1	9.3 TS1M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

This illustrates that the values are written with two less decimal places than is specified by the format.

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data a;
  now = datetime() ;
  put now  findfdt26.1;
  put now  findfdt26.2;
  put now  findfdt28.3;
  put now  findfdt30.5;
  put now  findfdt31.6;
run;


Log output:

        23.1.2009:10:08:59
        23.1.2009:10:08:59
        23.1.2009:10:08:58.6
        23.1.2009:10:08:58.627
        23.1.2009:10:08:58.6273

The EURDFDT format depends on the setting for DFLANG= system option for specifying the language for international date informats and formats.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium
Topic:	SAS Reference ==> Formats ==> Date and Time ==> EURDFDT

Date Modified:	2015-08-05 13:36:20
Date Created:	2009-06-24 11:50:03