## proc datesettings | Welcome Gallery Handbook |
| Manual page for proc_datesettings(PL)

## DESCRIPTION

proc datesettings may be used to control details of date handling.``

## ATTRIBUTES

format format

  Set the current date notation to format. Available formats are described in dates

omitweekends `omit` | `adjust` | `yes` | `no`

  Allows date plotting as if Saturdays and Sundays did not exist.`` Mondays will follow Fridays directly. Useful in certain business and work-related plots.``
  If `omit`, any Saturday or Sunday dates encountered will be considered invalid and omitted; however they will not be reported unless the -showbad command line option is used.``
  If `adjust` or `yes`, any Saturday or Sunday dates encountered will be silently adjusted to the nearest weekday.``

pivotyear yy

  Set the pivot year for deciding which century a two-digit year value is in. See dates for further discussion of pivot year.``

lazydates `month`|`day`|`both`

  Allow handling of dates where the day component or the month component is not known.`` See dates for further discussion of lazy dates.``
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Markup created by unroff 1.0, `` `` June 18, 2001.