New in SAS® 9.3 is the ability to format fractional seconds with the %s directive in the PICTURE statement in PROC FORMAT.

Attempting to add a leading zero to the formatted value of fractional seconds by inserting a leading zero before the picture directive (for example, %0s) does not insert a leading zero. The documentation for the PICTURE statement in the FORMAT procedure incorrectly states that you can insert a leading zero before this directive.

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Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		HP-UX IPF	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Linux	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Linux for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Solaris for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows Vista for x64	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Ultimate x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows 7 Professional x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows 7 Home Premium x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		z/OS	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Z64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows 7 Enterprise x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows 7 Professional 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M2
		Windows Vista	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.

Attempting to add a leading zero to the formatted value of fractional seconds by inserting a leading zero before the picture directive (for example, %0s) does not insert a leading zero. The documentation for the FORMAT procedure incorrectly states that you can insert a leading zero before this directive.

The PICTURE statement below produces the formatted value as 2012-05-01-13.05. 2.87654. To add a leading zero to the fractional seconds portion, you can use the TRANSLATE function. The new formatted value is 2012-05-01-13.05.02.87654, as desired.

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proc format;
   picture DB2TMS
   low-high = '%Y-%0m-%0d-%0H.%0M.%0s' (datatype=datetime);
run;

data test;
   olddb2tms1=dhms('01may12'd,13,5,2.87654);
   newdb2tms1= translate(put(olddb2tms1,DB2TMS26.6),'0',' ');
run;

title "Problem Note #47182";
proc print data=test;
   format olddb2tms1 DB2TMS26.6;
run;

View the output.

Attempting to add a leading zero to the formatted value of fractional seconds by inserting a zero before the picture directive (for example, %0s) does not insert a leading zero as documented.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2012-08-09 16:36:26
Date Created:	2012-08-08 16:49:28