Re: st: date and time

[Ali Khashan <Ali.Khashan@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk>]

Thanks Maarten, I am still using Stata 8. Is there a code in stata 8?

Many Thanks
Ali

Quoting Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>:

> --- Ali Khashan <Ali.Khashan@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I want to format a date variable.
> > I tried these codes:
> > gen nDate=date(sDate, "dm19y")
> > format nDate %dD_m_CY
> >
> > However they did not work and then I realised that the dates included
> > time
> > "03/02/2005 00:00".
> >
> > Is there a stata code which can deal with this date?
> Yes, this was introduced in Stata 10, see: -help date and time-.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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