Convert to sas date format

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1. I have date format YYYYMMDD
d1 = 20080416
How can I convert it to sas date format such as 16April2008 ?

2 .PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.mydata
DATAFILE= "D:\SAS_data\RawData\test.xls"
DBMS=EXCEL2000 REPLACE;
SHEET="test$";
GETNAMES=YES;
RUN;
proc import above, Can I define format of variables in this part ?