st: Truncating a date

[Robin Newberry <wnewber@clemson.edu>]

I want to take a date (in DD/MM/YYYY format) and shorten it to just 
MM/YY for graphing purposes. Can I just create a new date variable 
and format it to just MM/YY (using "format %dD/Y")?
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Robin
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W. Robert Newberry, IV CIH, CHMM
Chief Environmental Health and Safety Officer
Clemson University

wnewber@clemson.edu  ehs@clemson.edu
http://ehs.clemson.edu/
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