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

data want;
dt_val1='17JUL2006:00:00:00.000'dt;
dt_you_want=input(substr(put(dt_val1,datetime22.3),1,9),date9.);
format dt ddmmyy10.;
run;