st: From: Kim Price <kprice@hsph.harvard.edu>

[owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]

Hi,

I have a string variable dob (date of birth) entered as (mdy) 1/1/49, 
1/1/50... and currently stored as %9s.  I need to convert these into 
dates.  I used the following:

. gen dob1=date(dob, "md19y")
. format dob1 %dN/D/Y;

however, this appears to be changing the dates.  Any advice?

Thanks,
Kim

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