Date:         Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:57:44 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: YYYYMMDD

That informat works for you! The missunderstanding is the FORMAT, which you
must assign to see it like you want:

format date date9.;



On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:36:33 -0400, Heman Hunters <hemanhunters@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>The yymmdd8. doesn't do it for me. Or at least I don't quite understand
>it. If I use that in my code (posted in the original message), the column
>gets the format BEST12. Does that seem right?
>
>Thanks!!