RE: st: Formatting Dates

["Anna M. Pees" <ampees@vet.k-state.edu>]

I'm still not understanding how to do this.

I have generated a new age that is in days, and I want it to display in years and months.  Could someone send me a link that explains how to do this?  I don't find the stata help section helpful.

Thanks for all the help.

~AMP

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Lachenbruch, Peter
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 10:26 AM
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Subject: RE: st: Formatting Dates

Read help for dates and times.  Also read the help on format.  

Tony

Peter A. Lachenbruch
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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Anna M. Pees
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 7:48 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: st: Formatting Dates

One last question:

I tried looking this up but couldn't find information.

What if I want the "newage" in years and months?  How could I do this?


~AMP

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Miller, Daniel P
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:17 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: st: Formatting Dates

Assuming that drawdate and birthdate are in a days format I am pretty certain that you can:

gen newage_p = Drawdate- birthdate             
gen newage = mofd(newage_p)
drop newage_p

the Stata help file (type  help dates_and_times) has a great deal of information on how to work with dates and to convert dates from one format to another


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Oliver Jones
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 10:04 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Formatting Dates

Sorry, maybe I didn't understand your question.
Now I assume it is no problem for you to create the variable containing the age in months, e.g. by typing

generate currentage_m = newage/30.4

And now you want to format it?
What exactly do mean by that?

Best
Oliver


Am 10.06.2011 15:14, schrieb Anna M. Pees:
> How would I do that?  Sorry, so new to this.
> I can generate the new variable from the two dates but what do I use to format it?
>
> AMP
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Jones
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> Hi,
>
> why don't you create a variable holding the age in months?
>
> Best
> Oliver
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