Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:00:53 -0800
Reply-To:     "Berryhill, Timothy" <TWB2@PGE.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Berryhill, Timothy" <TWB2@PGE.COM>
Subject:      Re: how to read mmddyyyy
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I would expect MMDDYY8. to read any of 12/22/98, 122298 or 12221998 as the
same value.
Tim Berryhill - Contract Programmer and General Wizard
TWB2@PGE.COM or http://www.aartwolf.com/twb.html
Frequently at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco
The correlation coefficient between their views and
my postings is slightly less than 0
 
 
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> From:         Frank Schiffel[SMTP:SchifF@MAIL.HEALTH.STATE.MO.US]
> Reply To:     Frank Schiffel
> Sent:         Friday, January 22, 1999 12:52 PM
> To:   SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      how to read mmddyyyy
>
> anybody know what the format and informat for this data is? I'd like to
> change it to a SAS date without breaking it into month day year then
> putting the pieces back together after I check the century year.
> I'm using 6.12. and haven't seen mmddyyyy in the documentation we have
> around here.
>
> thanks.
>
> Frank Schiffel
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> Bureau of Health Resource Statistics
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