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| From | Abhimanyu Arora <abhimanyu.arora1987@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: string translation : date & time |
| Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:43:02 +0200 |
Dear statalist I just got myself in a puzzling situation. I had a variable string variable date taking up values Jan-90...Jan-99...Jan-00...Jan-01...Jan-10 and so on for different months. Making use of the time and date functions I typed the following commands gen temp=monthly(date,"MY",2000) *2000 is the base year* Subsequently, -format temp %tm - yields for the above months respectively, 1990m1...1999m1...2000m1...1901m1...1910m1 and so on. I an eager to know what could be the possible reason? And possible rectifying steps (both in terms of the possible commands I used initially and suppose given the output, into the desired form which is needless to say is 2001m1, 2010m1 etc? Best regards Abhimanyu * * 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/