Re: st: converting elapsed days to date.

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

As Maarten points out, -format- will display an elapsed
date in conventional notation.

If on the other hand you truly want to "reverse this"
and separate out the components of an elapsed date, then
see the functions -year()-,-month()-, and -day()-.

. gen year=year(stdate)

Jeph

Maarten buis wrote:
> --- Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor@gmail.com> 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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