SAS uses lots of date formats. ISO 8601 is a good spot to look for a large list.
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/63026/HTML/default/a003169814.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 zMan wrote: > > How many different date formats are there? There's the hardware > timestamp, in two forms (original, with the 2046 rollover, and the > extended one -- what is that, a STCKE instruction?). There's something > called an "Oracle format date". There's some UNIX format that rolls > over in 2034 or some such (tsk, with an epoch of 1970 -- they sure > weren't planning ahead!), too. > > Not to mention yy/mm/dd, mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy, with 2- and 4-digit > dates, varying separators (or no separators: yyyymmdd et al.), with > and without leading zeroes (when there are separators: today as > 8/13/2010 vs. 08/13/2010). And of course (the misnamed) Julian format. > > Rexx has a few others, but they're conveniences, like the number of > days this year -- I don't really consider that a date format, though > it's useful sometimes. > > What others are there? I'm working on something that will flexibly > handle dates, and while I'm not sure I'll handle every format > possible, I'd at least like to make the decision based on a pretty > complete set of possible formats. > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" -- Don Poitras - zSeries R & D - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive mailto:sas...@sas.com (919)531-5637 Fax:677-4444 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
