https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642559#M19152 Hi Jag, Do I need to write code for it? I just imported the data from data management tab, and then went to import tab, I found out once I imported the my csv file from my local computer, SAS recognized my date column as varcar not as a date. Sorry if im sound like a total beginner for you, actually im just starting to learn SAS. Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:38:05 GMT Aiman 2020-04-24T12:38:05Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642543#M19150 <P>Hi I'm trying to import csv file from my local computer to model studio and create a forecasting project, but unfortunately an error message occur stated that my&nbsp;data specification could not be created: The input data has no valid candidates for the time variable. Specify a table with a column that has a valid date format. Kindly assist me on how to solve the issues. Im sure that my csv file got the date column but somehow it was not recognized by SAS. Below is the picture of my dataset and error message.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="error message" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/38634i45E326073A2FD687/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="error.PNG" alt="error message" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">error message</span></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dataset from my csv" style="width: 399px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/38635i3C0FF81C6AC8DE2B/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Capture.PNG" alt="dataset from my csv" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">dataset from my csv</span></span></P> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:05:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642543#M19150 Aiman 2020-04-24T12:05:54Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642544#M19151 Could you please share the code you tried Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:08:58 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642544#M19151 Jagadishkatam 2020-04-24T12:08:58Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642559#M19152 Hi Jag, Do I need to write code for it? I just imported the data from data management tab, and then went to import tab, I found out once I imported the my csv file from my local computer, SAS recognized my date column as varcar not as a date. Sorry if im sound like a total beginner for you, actually im just starting to learn SAS. Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:38:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642559#M19152 Aiman 2020-04-24T12:38:05Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642569#M19153 <P>Please post a few lines of the file, using the &lt;/&gt; button. Do NOT open the file with Excel, use a text editor and copy/paste the text.</P> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:12:37 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/The-data-specification-could-not-be-created/m-p/642569#M19153 Kurt_Bremser 2020-04-24T13:12:37Z