st: Years to dates

["Terra Curtis" <terra.curtis@cambridgefinance.com>]

Dear Statalist,

I have a two variables of type %ty (for example, 1998).  I wish to change
variable1 to 01/01/1998 and variable2 to 12/31/1998.  Is there an easy way
of doing this?

Thanks,
Terra

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