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st: working with date values
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"Data Analytics Corp." <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: working with date values
Date
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:52:08 -0400
Hi [email protected],
I'm confused on handling dates. I imported a dataset on steel shipments
that has a variable called date. This is a string with the first date
value as "01/01/1984" for Jan 1, 1984. Using describe, I see that date
is str10 %10s. I then did
gen date2 = date(date, "MDY")
and the first value for date2 is 8766. Then I did
format %tm date2
and I expected to see jan1984 after doing a list. But I got 2690m7.
When I did
format %td date2
I got 01jan1984. I want jan1984. How do I do this? What is the
correct way to convert a string that's in the form "MM/DD/YYYY"?
Thanks,
Walt
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Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D.
Data Analytics Corp.
44 Hamilton Lane
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
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(F) 609-936-3733
[email protected]
www.dataanalyticscorp.com
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