Date YYMMDD

[Jyuen204]

Looked up in SAS for dates. I Want it in a YYMMDD fields and the closes i found was the format below. However it generates the dat with dashes
where I would want it like 120317

YYMMDD.

19069

12-03-17

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

Try format YYMMDDN6.

Do a smart thing and use four digit years, which would be YYMMDDN8.

[Jyuen204]

Thank You! I would normally do the full on year. I am just migrating a legacy solution over to SAS so changing the format is not required.

[Ksharp]

Pick the right format:

data _null_;
date=date();
put date yymmddn6.;
run;

[Reeza]

Format right after that one in the documentation.
Very good page to bookmark
https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/leforinforref/n0p2fmevfgj470n17h4k9f27qjag.ht...

[ballardw]

You need to very carefully label things in examples. You may not be aware but in one form 19069 could be 10 March 2019 (Julian date notation; or could be 1919, 1819,2119 for the year, 2 digit years are such a pain to keep straight).