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

My answer from a duplicate question:

You need to convert original SAS DATETIME value (think of it as data type) to SAS DATE value using DATEPART() function and apply appropriate format:

proc sql; 
 create table work.abc2
 as select *, DATEPART(a.Billing_Dt) format ddmmyy10. as Bill_date
from abc;
quit;

So the point is, as Keith pointed above, to apply appropriate type of format (e.g. ddmmyy10. is the SAS Date format) to appropriate values = variable content (e.g. (unformatted) 10 is 11th January 1960 if used as date, while it's 01JAN60:00:00:10 if used as Datetime value), so you have to be sure what your values represent and convert the values if needed.