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Not a riddle! -format-ting does not change the underlying value of the date
variable, only how it is -display-ed. To switch from daily to weekly
frequency, you want to use the conversion functions, as in
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help dates_and_times, mark(converting)
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HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Freitag, 6. November 2009 10:37
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Betreff: st: Problems with %tw when date() is used to create a date variable
Hi all,
I have encountered a strange problem that I do not know how to solve of if
there is a bug somewhere. The problem is as follows. From a string value
(such as e.g., 12/31/1974) I create myDate using date. The string value
12/31/1974 thus becomes myDate value 5478. Finally I format the myDate value
as e.g., %td or %tw.
When I compare myDate with the original string I find a one-to-one
correspondance such that the myDate shows the same date as do the original
string (i.e., when the original string is 12/31/1974, the myDate %td format
is 31dec1974). However when I instead format myDate as %tw I find a
completely different result. E.g., the example 12/31/1974 then becomes
2065w19. . . Something must be very wrong and I appreciate any suggestion to
solve this riddle.
The code is as follows.
generate myDate = date(dates, "MDY")
format myDate %td
I have also tested to use mdy() to create myDate (which takes a few more
lines of code) and find identical results.
Regards
Joachim
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Joachim Landstrom
Assistant Professor
Department of Business Studies
Uppsala University, Sweden
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