SAS 9.3 DATETIME VARIABLE FORMAT AS DATE

Question

I have a datetime22.3 variable which I would like to display as date.

for eg I want to display 17JUL2006:00:00:00.000 as 07/17/2006

How do I do this?

Answer 1

use the same princpiple in a data step

data _null_;
   a='17JUL2006:00:00:00.000'd;
   put a;
   put 'formatted date='a MMDDYY10.;
run;

This is the output from my SAS 9.3

44   data _null_;
45   a = '17JUL2006:00:00:00:000'D;
46   put a;
47   put 'formatted ' a MMDDYY10.;
48   run;

16999
formatted 07/17/2006
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds