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Re: st: date conversion
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: date conversion
Date
Thu, 26 May 2011 14:32:59 +0100
There is (of course, as they say) a better way:
gen mydate = string(mydate, "%tdNNDDCCYY")
Nick
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> gen mydate = string(month(date), "%02.0f") + string(day(date),
> "%02.0f") + string(year(date))
>
> I am assuming your years are all four-digit years, so that you are not
> for example an ancient or medieval historian.
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Michael Eisenberg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> I need to convert a series of dates in my dataset to a specific format
>> for a collaborator. Currently, they are in the standard stata date
>> format.
>>
>> I need to make them into string variables in the following format:
>>
>> 01051987 which is Jan 5, 1987
>> 09151973 which is Sept 15, 1973
>> 12302005 which is Dec 30, 2005
>>
>> where the month is always 2 characters and the day is also always 2
>> characters and year is 4 characters.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Mike
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