Date:         Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:09:21 GMT+800
Reply-To:     Paul Carreno <PCARRENO@ACSERV.AD.COWAN.EDU.AU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Paul Carreno <PCARRENO@ACSERV.AD.COWAN.EDU.AU>
Organization: Edith Cowan University
Subject:      DATES

Hi
I have a dataset with 4 variables........which I can make  numeric or
character..depending on how easy isto solve theproblem I have...
 
I have    month1 with values a la "mm" and year1 with values
a la "yy".......simply a variable for month and another one for year...
ie: month1 = 05 and year1 = 89;
 
I also have 2 other variables month2 and year2 with similar type of
values...
 
The user wants me to give him a report of the time elapsed between
month1 year1 and month2 year2 in MONTHS.......
 
the application was written sometime ago..and I can modify that....
all i have is an ASCII file  with those values....
 
Can someone give me some idea on how to code the date
calculation?
I can make the values numeric or charcters to simplify  the
calcuation.
 
I will appreciate any assistance with this...
 
Paul Carreno