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st: converting varying formats of string dates into Stata dates


From   "Kate Rohrbaugh" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: converting varying formats of string dates into Stata dates
Date   Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:22:02 -0400

Greetings Statalist:
 
First, I hope my attempts at removing the HTML text were successful.  If not, apologies in advance.

Second I have several fields that have dates in all sorts of manner, for example (and there are more types, like mar-01-2000, this is just a smattering):

. l2 todate1 in 1/20

  +-----------+
  |   todate1 |
  |-----------|
  | 30-Jun-99 |
  |  10/15/99 |
  | 4/15/1998 |
  | 4/15/1998 |
  | 8/15/1998 |
  |-----------|
  |   3/15/00 |
  |  6/1/1998 |
  |  6/1/1998 |
  |  1-MAR-00 |
  |  1-MAR-00 |
  |-----------|
  |  1-MAR-00 |
  |  1-MAR-00 |
  |  02/15/98 |
  |  12/01/98 |
  |  1-AUG-00 |
  |-----------|
  | 8/15/1998 |
  | 8/15/1998 |
  | 6/30/1998 |
  | 6/30/1998 |
  |  7/1/1999 |
  +-----------+

Is there an ado-file or function out there that can help fix this?  We have something called chgdate, but it assumes that all the variables are in "xx/xx/xxxx" format and drops everything else.  My goal is to have 1 variable that has a date in the Stata date format.

Thank you!

Kate




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