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Re: st: ym() date function is acting strangely


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: ym() date function is acting strangely
Date   Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:54:34 -0500

At 04:34 PM 12/15/2011, Gabi Huiber wrote:
I do this:

clear
set obs 10
gen year=2010
gen month=_n
gen date1=ym(year, month)
format date1 %tm

And I get this:

year    month   date1
2010    1       23aug1961
2010    2       24aug1961
2010    3       25aug1961
2010    4       26aug1961
2010    5       27aug1961
2010    6       28aug1961
2010    7       29aug1961
2010    8       30aug1961
2010    9       31aug1961
2010    10      01sep1961

How on Earth is that possible? A minute ago ym() was working fine, I swear.

I can't replicate. I assume your Stata is up to date?


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