Re: st: how to get age in number of years, months and days

[Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com>]

Yes,

You can search for terms like difference between to times or dates and
could have found the following example from Nick Cox discussion on a
similar topic in 2011. You should be careful as the following might
work in its original where DMY is YMD also and Stata help on -help
datetime translation-

gen long daysbetween = date(enddate, "DMY") - date(startdate, "DMY")

The above example is taken from

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-01/msg00888.html


HTH
Anees

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:10 AM, jose maria pacheco de souza
<jmpsouza@usp.br> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters:
> is there any user writen program that presents the differences between two
> dates DMY (today date and birthday date, say) as number of years, months and
> days?
> I tried the help (all three searchs), the dates and times help  and the pdf
> manual. Maybe I am missing something.
> Thank you for the help.
> jose maria
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