Re: st: minor annoyance

[David Radwin <radwin@berkeley.edu>]

Jeph,

If you frequently need today's date formatted as a Stata date value 
or some other specific format like the one below, you might find it 
convenient to make a global macro like $today in your profile.do file.

The risk would be that if you leave your computer (and Stata) on 
overnight, the macro would refer to an earlier date.

David

At 8:58 AM -0400 8/7/08, Jeph Herrin wrote:

> Even if one isn't using it to compare with a date
> variable, one usually wants to reformat before using,
> and converting to a date value is the easiest way
> to proceed, eg,
>
> local today=string(date("`c(current_date)'","DMY"),"%tdCCYY.NN.DD")
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David Radwin // radwin@berkeley.edu
Office of Student Research, University of California, Berkeley
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