Hi, I have a dataset with a numeric variable with informat and format of 9.This numeric field has date value as below: date_var 20051020 I tried to read in the variable in a Data step and change the format of date_var to mmddyy10. and created the dataset,but when I opened the dataset the value of date_var is showing in bestw format. ie in my output dataset I am seeing the value of date_var as 20051020 instead of 10/20/2005. I have also noticed in the log that there was a message when I opened the output dataset ,ie : Error in Format,bestw used instead. Any idea why this is happening? Please help. Thanks in advance.
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