st: date(s1,s2) leads to no values

["Fabian Brenner" <Fabian.Brenner@gmx.de>]

Dear all:

variable "date" is str8   %9s (one example:19861230). I would like to use gen begin=date(date,"YMD") to get elapsed dates but stata does not put any values in variable "begin" (only missings).

Hope someone can help me. I use stata 8.
Fabian
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