st: date format

["Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>]

Dear statalist,

I have got one variable in my data that comes in format “YYYYMM”, i.e. 
the first four digits correspond to the year and the last two to the month.

How can I translate this format into Stata elapsed date %d (see [U] 27)?

Thanks for any suggestions

Hans

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