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Re: st: Problem with the time
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Problem with the time
Date
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:03:53 +0100
Yes.
ym(1951,1) is -108, that many months before the origin at ym(1960,1) == 0.
But year() expects an argument in days. If you feed it -108, that is a
daily date within 1959, which is what you got.
So, you need to map from months to days first, as in
. di year(dofm(ym(1951,1)))
1951
There may be a simpler method of doing it, but that one works.
Compare also
. di yofd(mdy(1,1,1951))
1951
Nick
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Guido Lüchters
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> anybody knows
>
> why
>
> gen x=year(ym(1951,1))
>
> gives
> 1959 ?
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