*(Q) I have a date variable but would like to display the date in the format ddd dd-mmm-yyyy format, where ddd is the first 3 letters of the day of the week. *(A) Posted to spss newsgroup on 2003/03/24 by Raynald Levesque. DATA LIST LIST /date1 (ADATE10). BEGIN DATA 03/24/2003 END DATA. FORMATS date1 (DATE11). COMPUTE dweek=XDATE.WKDAY(date1). STRING dayname(A21) date2(A40). COMPUTE dayname="SunMonTueWedThuFriSat". COMPUTE date2=CONCAT(SUBSTR(dayname,1+ (dweek-1)*3,3)," ",STRING(date1,DATE12)). LIST date2. * The result of LIST is: DATE2 Mon 24-MAR-2003