YYMMDDw. Format

Writes date values in the form yymmdd or <yy>yy-mm-dd, where a hyphen is the separator and the year appears as either 2 or 4 digits.

Category:	Date and Time
Alignment:	right

Syntax

YYMMDDw.

w: specifies the width of the output field.

Default:8

Range:2–10

Interaction:When w has a value of from 2 to 5, the date appears with as much of the year and the month as possible. When w is 7, the date appears as a two-digit year without hyphens.

The YYMMDDw. format writes SAS date values in one of the following forms:

yymmdd

<yy>yy–mm–dd

where

<yy>yy

is a two-digit or four-digit integer that represents the year.

–

is the separator.

is an integer that represents the month.

is an integer that represents the day of the month.

To format a date that has a four-digit year and no separators, use the YYMMDDx. format.

The following examples use the input value of 19086, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to April 3, 2012.