MMDDYYw. Format

Writes date values in the form mmdd<yy>yy or mm/dd/<yy>yy, where a forward slash is the separator and the year appears as either 2 or 4 digits.

Category:	Date and Time
Alignment:	right

Syntax

MMDDYYw.

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 month and the day as possible. When w is 7, the date appears as a two-digit year without slashes.

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

mmdd<yy>yy

mm/dd/<yy>yy:

where

is an integer that represents the month.

is the separator.

is an integer that represents the day of the month.

<yy>yy

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

The following examples use the input value of 19291, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to October 25, 2012.