How the date 04oct1994 is stored in SAS,not only give the
answer explain in brief?
Answer Posted / sree
In sas the date will be stored as the number of days since
January
1,1960. SAS stores dates as number of days hence it
becomes a numeric value .
Use a date informat to read the date eg. DATE9. ,MMDDYY10.
etc..and u will
get the number of days in the output dataset in a format
you specify or date9.only
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