https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/date9-format/m-p/75813#M16340 Is it that what you're after?<BR /> <BR /> data want;<BR /> input dates anydtdte10.;<BR /> format dates date9.;<BR /> put dates;<BR /> datalines;<BR /> 9/1/09 <BR /> 09/01/09 <BR /> 9/01/2009 <BR /> 09/1/2009 <BR /> 09/01/2009<BR /> ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:52:16 GMT Patrick 2009-10-14T21:52:16Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/date9-format/m-p/75812#M16339 9/1/09 09/01/09 9/01/2009 09/1/2009 09/01/2009<BR /> I'm being over ambitious here.Can we change the above date fomats to date9.?<BR /> The reason is the vendors who provide data are not consistent in the data structure.data changes every now and then./ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:23:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/date9-format/m-p/75812#M16339 SASPhile 2009-10-14T21:23:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/date9-format/m-p/75813#M16340 Is it that what you're after?<BR /> <BR /> data want;<BR /> input dates anydtdte10.;<BR /> format dates date9.;<BR /> put dates;<BR /> datalines;<BR /> 9/1/09 <BR /> 09/01/09 <BR /> 9/01/2009 <BR /> 09/1/2009 <BR /> 09/01/2009<BR /> ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:52:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/date9-format/m-p/75813#M16340 Patrick 2009-10-14T21:52:16Z