Determining Format Publish Dates

You might need to know when user-defined formats or formats that SAS supplies were published. SAS supplies two special formats that return a datetime value that indicates when this occurred.

The INTRINSIC-CRDATE format returns a datetime value that indicates when the SAS formats library was published.
The UFMT-CRDATE format returns a datetime value that indicates when the user-defined formats were published.

Note: You must use the SQL pass-through facility to return the datetime value associated with the INTRINSIC-CRDATE and UFMT-CRDATE formats, as illustrated in this example:

proc sql noerrorstop;
   connect to 
&tera (
&connopt);

title 'Publish date of SAS Format Library';
select * from connection to 
&tera
   (
      select sas_put(1, 'intrinsic-crdate.')
         as sas_fmts_datetime;
   );
title 'Publish date of user-defined formats';
select * from connection to 
&tera
   (
      select sas_put(1, 'ufmt-crdate.')
         as my_formats_datetime;
   );

disconnect from teradata;
quit;