https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/new-in-9-2/m-p/13348#M1558 "nice-n-new" in SAS9.2<BR /> date handling now supports and provides delimiters in DATE format, with width 11. The year format supports width 5.[pre]%PUT %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, date11. )) <BR /> %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, year5. ));<BR /> 350 %PUT %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, date11. ))<BR /> 351 %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, year5. )) ;<BR /> 21-SEP-**** 10173<BR /> [/pre]<BR /> I think the hyphen separated version is an improvement on the old DATE9 form. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:19 GMT Peter_C 2009-11-06T15:00:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/new-in-9-2/m-p/13348#M1558 "nice-n-new" in SAS9.2<BR /> date handling now supports and provides delimiters in DATE format, with width 11. The year format supports width 5.[pre]%PUT %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, date11. )) <BR /> %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, year5. ));<BR /> 350 %PUT %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, date11. ))<BR /> 351 %SYSFUNC( PUTN( 2999999, year5. )) ;<BR /> 21-SEP-**** 10173<BR /> [/pre]<BR /> I think the hyphen separated version is an improvement on the old DATE9 form. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/new-in-9-2/m-p/13348#M1558 Peter_C 2009-11-06T15:00:19Z