Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:34:57 -0700
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From:         "Terjeson, Mark" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: adjusting dates
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Hi Erik,

There are several approaches.
One way is the MDY() function.

year = 2005;
fulldate = mdy(1,1,year);
format fulldate yymmdd10.;



Hope this is helpful.


Mark Terjeson
Investment Business Intelligence
Investment Management & Research
Russell Investments
253-439-2367


Russell
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-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of E
Joas
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:57 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: adjusting dates

Hello,
I have a problem with dates in SAS.

I have a variable that gives the date of an event in years (yyyy) now
I want that to be transformed into a full date (yyyymmdd), all the
observations would be given the date XXXX0101.

How do I do that?

thanks for the help
Erik Joas