topic formatting &sysdate in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/formatting-sysdate/m-p/10378#M989 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I want to put today's date in a title statement.&nbsp; Instead of 12DEC11, I want the output to read December 11, 2011.&nbsp; Can I use %sysfunc to do this?&nbsp; If so, how?&nbsp; Thanks. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:35:16 GMT GreggB 2011-12-07T17:35:16Z formatting &sysdate https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/formatting-sysdate/m-p/10378#M989 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I want to put today's date in a title statement.&nbsp; Instead of 12DEC11, I want the output to read December 11, 2011.&nbsp; Can I use %sysfunc to do this?&nbsp; If so, how?&nbsp; Thanks. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:35:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/formatting-sysdate/m-p/10378#M989 GreggB 2011-12-07T17:35:16Z formatting &sysdate https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/formatting-sysdate/m-p/10379#M990 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Use the worddate format.</P><P></P><P>%let date1=%sysfunc(today(), worddate20.);</P><P>%put &amp;date1;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:45:33 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/formatting-sysdate/m-p/10379#M990 Reeza 2011-12-07T17:45:33Z formatting &sysdate https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/formatting-sysdate/m-p/10380#M991 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Excellent.&nbsp; Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:07:18 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/formatting-sysdate/m-p/10380#M991 GreggB 2011-12-07T18:07:18Z