If you want to keep the value as a datetime value you can use a custom format. Example:
Proc format library=work;
picture dtmmddyy (default=10)
low-high ='%0m/%0d/%Y' (datatype=datetime)
;
run;
data example;
x='02FEB2019:10:15:15'dt;
put x dtmmddyy.;
run;
SAS does supply a number of other formats to display the date portion of datetime values such as DTDATE, DTMONYY and a couple of others. So this is not an off the wall solution.