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Re: st: dates question
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Michael Eisenberg <[email protected]>
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Re: st: dates question
Date
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 08:45:29 -0700
Brilliant. Thanks so much!
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> See [U] 24 for a brief introduction and -help dates and times- for
> fuller detail.
>
> If your variables are all numeric then
>
> gen dailydate = mdy(injmo, injday. injyr)
>
> will produce a daily date variable. Then
>
> format dailydate %td
>
> or
>
> formal dailydate %d
>
> will assign a default format for daily dates. You can tune that format
> using recipes given in the -help-.
>
> Note that (a) having a values in a variable that Stata will interpret
> as dates as you want and (b) assigning a format that displays a date
> variable as a recognisable date are quite separate in principle, as
> shown by the separate commands above.
>
> Nick
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Michael Eisenberg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have what I hope will be a simple question regarding dates.
>>
>> I have separate columns for day of injury, month of injury, and year
>> of injury. How can I merge these into one variable in date format?
>>
>> For example
>> injmo 03
>> injday 29
>> injyr 2001
>>
>> newvar 29mar2001
>> or
>> newvar 15063
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