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nicolaskan
Fluorite | Level 6

 

I have a dataset with date column in DATETIME20.

May i know how i can change it to MMDDYY9. ?

 

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SASKiwi
PROC Star

If the column has a format of datetime20. then it is a datetime column not a data one. To convert it to a date column try this:

data want;
  set have;
  Date_Column = datepart(Date_Column);
  format Date_Column mmddyy9.;
run;

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SASKiwi
PROC Star

If the column has a format of datetime20. then it is a datetime column not a data one. To convert it to a date column try this:

data want;
  set have;
  Date_Column = datepart(Date_Column);
  format Date_Column mmddyy9.;
run;

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