Actually sas stores dates as numbers eg:: given date 12-07-2009 in

How to convert a given date value into SAS date

Question Posted / suresh ganapuram

Answer Posted / suresh ganapuram

Actually sas stores dates as numbers

eg:: given date 12-07-2009

in sas :: we can store like this `12-07-2009`d

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