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KevinC_
Fluorite | Level 6
Hello Everyone,

I am trying to put today's date in an output field in the format of mm/dd/yyyy or mm/dd/yy.

If I use today() i get a sas date. But i am not sure how to convert it to the formats above.

Thank you so much for any input!
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sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10 sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
It depends on the technique you are using to display the "formatted" date. If you assign a SAS DATE (numeric) variable using today(), then you would use a FORMAT statement in your program with the desired output format specified for your variable, as shown below:

mydate = today();
format mydate mmddyys10.;


And, if you are using a SAS macro variable, you must run the SAS-generate text with a function, as shown below:

TITLE2 "RUN DATE: %SYSFUNC(TODAY(),MMDDYYS10.)";

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.
KevinC_
Fluorite | Level 6
Thank you so much, Scott! That worked beautifully 🙂

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