@5062917 wrote: Hi, I have a dataset where dates are stored as a character in the format, MMM DD YYYY, 00:00, e.g."Jun 26 2015, 08:38" or "Apr 9 2015, 20:15". Is there any way to turn this into a numeric date?     Thanks in advance 🙂  Date (day information only) or datetime which includes the time portion? SAS does treat those differently and is important to be precise. ... View more