PDJULGw. Informat

Reads packed Julian date values in the hexadecimal form yyyydddF for IBM.

Category:

Date and Time

Syntax

PDJULGw.

specifies the width of the input field.

Default	4
Range	4

The PDJULGw. informat reads IBM packed Julian date values in the form of yyyydddF:

yyyy

is the two-byte representation of the four-digit Gregorian year.

ddd

is the one-and-a-half byte representation of the three-digit integer that corresponds to the Julian day of the year, 1–365 (or 1–366 for leap years).

is the half byte that contains all binary 1s, which assigns the value as positive.

Note: SAS interprets a two-digit year as belonging to the 100-year span that is defined by the YEARCUTOFF= system option.

input date pdjulg4.;

Data Line	Result 1
----+----1
2012003F	18995
1SAS date value 18995 represents January 3, 2012.