On Aug 7, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Nick Winter wrote:
If you are doing this, even better would be to include the
following in profile.do
global today date("\`c(current_date)'","DMY")
Note the backslash before the open-single-quote (`), which means
the global macro contains the literal string `c(current_date)'
which is evaluated every time the global is called, rather than
containing the value of c(current_date) at the time you assign the
global.
Technically, you don't even need the macro expansion characters here:
global today date(c(current_date),"DMY")
will do just fine.
-- Phil
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