I am not sure whether this is flagged anywhere. It's arisen
several times on the list since Stata 10. No one pays much
attention until it bites them!
Rajesh Tharyan
Is there a good reference on how little things like this have changed
between version 9 and 10?
Nick Cox
No.
In Stata 10, try "DMY".
Rajesh Tharyan
The command gen adate=date(date,"dmy"), where date is a string variable
works fine in stata9
However, it generates missing values in stata10.
The format of the date is
. describe date
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
---
date str10 %10s Date
is this because the variable is named date?
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