Dealing with SAS dates can be tricky, particularly if you're migrating your data between different analysis platforms (SAS in UNIX, R, JMP, etc.
In order to convert a date into the sasdate, you can use one of 2 methods, depending on whether the variable was read in as a character or numeric variable.
method 1: newsasdate=input(olddate, date11.);
method 2:newsasdate=input(put(olddate, Z6.) ddmmyy6.
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