st: date("01jan1960", "DMY") does not seem to work with -if- qualifier of the command -tablist-

[Jeremy Page <miahpage@gmail.com>]

I am a frequent user of the user generated command -tablist- and I
have run into a behavior that I can not explain.  I am trying to use
Stata's -date- command with the -if- qualifier to restrict
observations from displaying in -tablist-.  When I attempt to do this
there appears to be a problem.  I am able to use the -date- command to
restrict observations with -tabulate- and I am able to restrict
observations in -tablist- with a local variable being defined by the
-date- command but not with -tablist-.  It is my understanding that
the -if- qualifiers across all programs should act the same.  Am I
missing something?  I have included an example below using a Stata
supplied data set.

I am using version 1.2 of -tablist- which can be found at -findit
tablist- and my version of Stata is 10.1 on a Windows XP machine.

Thank you for your help.

Best,
Jeremy



**********begin example***************
clear
use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r10/datexmpl.dta


gen statadate = date(bday, "DMY")

format statadate %td

list statadate

display date("01Jan1960", "DMY")

***it works with tabulate
tab bday name if statadate > date("01Jan1960", "DMY")


***it works with a local variable
local dte = date("01Jan1960", "DMY")
tablist bday name if statadate > `dte'

***it does not work with tablist
tablist bday name if statadate > date("01Jan1960", "DMY")


************end example***************

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