Per the Stata help documentation, Stata interprets dates the same way, i.e. 01 Jan
1960 corresponds to zero.
You may find what you need by typing
findit date
into the command window.
--clint
On 15 Mar 2005 at 13:23, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have the following problem in a data set. All dates are currently
> recorded in the SAS date format. That means they are positive or
> negative numbers depending on whether they were before or after day
> "0": 1-January-1960 I have yet to find a way to get them converted
> to STATA with the actual date (01/01/1960 for instance) in the record.
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mary Clouser
>
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