It is very possible to want to compare the day of the month from two terms or years with a 1Jun format and have the time series object sort by date. I had to add a string variable by extracting the day and month and then use custom sort in SAS VA on that specific variable and sort them one by one so that I could display the frequency in order in a line chart because there was no day and month date format available and so I couldn't use the time series chart. If there is a DATE5. in SAS 9.4, why isn't there one in SAS VA?