DATESTYLE= System Option
Specifies the sequence of month, day, and year when
ANYDTDTE, ANYDTDTM, or ANYDTTME informat data is ambiguous.
| Valid in: |
Configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS
System Options window
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| Categories: |
Environment control: Language control
Input control: Data processing
|
| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
INPUTCONTROL
LANGUAGECONTROL
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| Note: |
This option cannot be restricted by a site administrator. For more information,
see Restricted Options. |
Syntax
Syntax Description
- MDY
-
specifies that SAS
set the order as month, day, year.
- YMD
-
specifies that SAS
set the order as year, month, day.
- DMY
-
specifies that SAS
set the order as day, month, year.
- LOCALE
-
specifies that SAS
set the order based on the value that corresponds to the LOCALE= system
option value and is one of the following: MDY | YMD | DMY.
Details
System option DATESTYLE=
identifies the order of month, day, and year. The default value is
LOCALE. The default LOCALE system option value is English, therefore,
the default DATESTYLE order is MDY.
To get the default settings
for each locale option value, see Locale
Values.