You're not telling us everything, I surmise,
as there's nothing wrong with your syntax.
. clear
. set obs 1
obs was 0, now 1
. gen month = 1
. gen day = 1
. gen year = 2000
. tempvar time
. ge `time' = mdy(month, day, year)
. ge junk = month(`time')
. l
+--------------------------------------+
| month day year __000000 junk |
|--------------------------------------|
1. | 1 1 2000 14610 1 |
+--------------------------------------+
Nick
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Danielle H. Ferry
> I apologize in advance b/c I think the answer must be obvious
> - but I can't
> seem to make this work and it is driving me nuts.
>
> I am trying to do the following:
>
> tempvar time;
> ge `time' = mdy(month, day, year);
> ge junk = month(`time');
>
> The var `time' works fine. But I get only missing values for
> junk. What am I
> being thickheaded about?
>
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