In which format does Date stores in sas..?
What is the use of DATE in SAS.?

Answer Posted / mannna

it is stored as numeric values.
Eg
data aaa;
a=today();
put a;
run;
it will show you numeric no equivalent to current date.After using format staement u can get todays date as;
data aaa;
a=today();
format a date9.;
put a;
run;

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