Svend & Mosca:
You may want to go one additional step...
After constructing year,
> gen x = strpos(datetime," ")
> gen year = substr(datetime, x-4, 4)
>
year is obviously a string variable. If this does not suit your purposes, then
destring year, replace
should do it for you.
EGW
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