A tangential comment:
For Stata, date variables are not a variable type,
or a set of variable types. Dates are held as integer-valued
numeric variables and the date part works through formats
and functions.
In Stata, naturally, you can also hold a date as a string,
but its date attributes then lie in the eye of the beholder.
Other programs have other attitudes, but the key point here,
I believe, is that Stata has no concept of a date-type
variable and even less concept of the meaning of a string
variable.
I guess this underlies at least part of the problem you have
here.
Nick
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Dave Ewart
> > Can you suggest a way to 'transparently' import these dates as
> > 'proper' date variables?
>
> Reply aimed at Kevin Crow:
>
> Joseph Coveney's very helpful workaround notwithstanding, can I assume
> that a direct import of date-type values over ODBC in this
> manner is not
> possible with Stata?
>
> Is this considered a bug by the Stata developers? (This isn't a
> criticism, rather a request for clarification!)
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