The original date format of the date var is %dD_m_Y
I checked the commands in STATA and they look correct, but i wonder
the current date format has to do with giving type mismatch result?
Thank you and best regards
ziad
On 10/27/07, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> > when i type
> > gen ndate = date(date, "DMY")
> >
> > it sayd type mismatch, i am using ver 9.2, is it something in the
> > text or version related?
>
> Yes, this code was tested on Stata 10.0, when I just tested it in my
> old Stata 9.2 I did not get that error message, but it did create
> missing values instead, a look at -help date- told me that in 9.2 I
> should use lower case instead of upper case letters:
>
> gen ndate = date(date, "dmy")
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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