Date:         Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:40:20 -0400
Reply-To:     Cathy Ward <cward@NCACCESSCARE.ORG>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Cathy Ward <cward@NCACCESSCARE.ORG>
Organization: AccessCare
Subject:      MS Access to SAS Date Interpretation
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I received a data set from an external source, created by a 6.12 ver of
SAS, which in turn was exported into an MS Access table.  The dates are
listed in a DDMMMYY format, and as MS Access uses different
nomenclature, are stored as character rather than date/time variables.
I am now trying to import these data sets into my ver 8 SAS and am
having trouble getting these fields to be recognized as dates.  Any
suggestions as to how to convert these character values to a date SAS
recognizes would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Catherine Ward, RN, MSN/MBA
Clinical Data Analyst
3500 Gateway Centre Boulevard, Suite 130
Morrisville, NC 27560-8501
Phone: (919) 380-9962/Fax: (919) 468-8573
CWard@ncaccesscare.org