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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| 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 <njcoxstata@gmail.com> 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 > <meisenberg713@gmail.com> 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 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/