Date:         Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:32:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: actual date (sysdate?)
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:05:36 +0100, Jörg Zimmermann <needful@WEB.DE> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>how can I get the actual date (the date, I start a sas program)
>in german format, like "21.03.2002"?
>I want to save it as character in a sas-table.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Joerg


data a;
  start_datum=translate(put("&sysdate"d,ddmmyy10.),".","/");
  akt_datum=translate(put(today(),ddmmyy10.),".","/");
run;

start_date and akt_date might differ a bit, because akt_date give you the
date at runtime of a SAS session which might be started yesterday or a week
ago.