E8601DNw. Informat

Reads date values that are specified using the ISO 8601 extended notation yyyy-mm-dd and returns SAS datetime values where the time portion of the value is 000000.

Categories:	Date and Time
Categories:	ISO 8601
Alignment:	Left
Alias:	IS8601DNw
Restriction:	UTC time zone offset values are not supported.
Supports:	ISO 8601 Element 5.2.1.1, complete representation

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E8601DNw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default	10
Requirement	The width of the input field must be 10.

Details

The E8601DN informat reads date values that are specified using the ISO 8601 extended date notation yyyy-mm-dd and returns the date in a SAS datetime value:

yyyy

is a four-digit year.

is a two-digit month (zero padded) between 01 and 12.

is a two-digit day of the month (zero padded) between 01 and 31.

Example

input edn e8601dn.;

Data Line	Result
----+----1
2012-09-15	1663286400

E8601DNw. Informat

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