Hi everyone   I have a column in my data set that is recognized by SAS as numeric and where the values are in the format of YYYY-MM-DD. I would like to convert it into YYYYMMDD format.   To do so I took the variable with the current format YYMMDD10 and create a new variable "date2" which is already numeric and in the format that I want it to be, YYMMDDN8. However, when I run the code, the "date2" stays empty.   Can you tell me how I can solve this?  I want to either a) transform the current date variable to YYMMDDN8 or b) create a new variable with YYMMDDN8 format.   Here is the code I used:   data xyz; set xy; date2= input(date, yymmdd10.); format date2 YYMMDDN8.; run;     ... View more