Forest Fang has been kind enough to update his SAS dataset reader for Spark 1.5 (spark-sas7bdat), and added support for converting the SAS date format. It’s a very useful tool for anyone running SAS and Spark together or migrating from SAS to Spark.
Here’s the link to the Spark-Packages page: http://spark-packages.org/package/saurfang/spark-sas7bdat