Problem Note 36336: The EURDFDT format with DFLANG=Finnish does not display the decimal portion correctly
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
| 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 |
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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.
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
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| Date Modified: | 2015-08-05 13:36:20 |
| Date Created: | 2009-06-24 11:50:03 |
