Date (YMD)

Standardization Definition

Date (YMD)
Description

The Date (YMD) standardization definition standardizes dates that have format YMD. The output is a four-digit year, followed by a zero-padded two-digit month, followed by a zero-padded two-digit day. The year, month, and day are separated by slashes, eqal to the SAS Date format "YYMMDDS10.".

Examples Input Output
02/07/04 2002/07/04
05 JUL 04 2005/07/04
05.07.04 2005/07/04
05.7.4 2005/07/04
2005/7/4 2005/07/04
2005July04 2005/07/04
2005-07-04 2005/07/04
2005 juillet 04 2005/07/04
2005 juil. 04. 2005/07/04
2005 Ιούλιος 4. 2005/07/04
2005 luglio 4 2005/07/04
2005 יולי 04 2005/07/04
Remarks If the input year is a two-digit value, it is assumed to be within the hundred year span with 2049 as the end of the span. For example, a year of 49 will be 2049, but a year of 50 will be 1950.

If this definition is applied to preparsed data, the following input tokens are available:

Year
Month
Day

It is recommended that you map a correlating data field to each available token whenever possible.