C is correct.
The months are character, so alphabetical order (corresponding to ascending MONTH) would be:
July
June
May
Descending month would give you:
May
June
July
Within each month, the observations are sorted by ascending DAY (descending only applies to one variable).
C is correct.
The months are character, so alphabetical order (corresponding to ascending MONTH) would be:
July
June
May
Descending month would give you:
May
June
July
Within each month, the observations are sorted by ascending DAY (descending only applies to one variable).
This is one of the many reasons when using date, datetime or time in analysis to strongly consider making SAS date, datetime or time valued variables instead of leaving the individual components (month day year hour minute second) as separate variables of often mixed type (month=> character, day year => numeric).
Then choosing an appropriated date display format, or making a custom one, makes the output pretty.
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