--- Ashim Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote:
> I understand that if I have the month , day ,year I can do
>
> gen stdate= mdy(month,day,year)
>
> is there a way I can "reverse this" ie. given the elapsed days can I
> figure out todays date in the format 20080828 for say today?
Yes, you use -format-, see: -help format-
-- Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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