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st: RE: dates and elapsed time
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"Kieran McCaul" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: dates and elapsed time
Date
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:05:06 +0800
...
You need to use the -date- function.
di %d date("17-Mar-85", "DM19Y")
So, if you have dates stored as strings in two variables, date1 and
date2:
gen firstdate = date(date1, "DM19Y")
gen seconddate = date(date2, "DM19Y")
format firstdate seconddate %d
gen n_days = seconddate - firstdate
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirsten Beyer
Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2010 6:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: dates and elapsed time
Hello,
I am relatively new to STATA and have been unsuccessful in formatting
two
dates, then calculating the number of days between them.
Dates are in the following format: 17-Mar-85
Any advice?
KB
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