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Re: st: date command error?
From
Ryan Kessler <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: date command error?
Date
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:30:47 -0500
Hi Steve,
You need to deal with your two-digit years. For example:
input str25 datestr
"01/15/96"
"01/15/1996"
"01/15/2013"
"01/15/13"
end
gen dates = date(datestr, "MDY", 2013)
format dates %td
Documentation here -->
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-01/msg00548.html
Ryan Kessler
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Steven Archambault
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running Stata 12 on a Mac, and am having trouble with the date command.
>
> My datestr values are in the format MM/DD/YY
>
> I am trying to convert these to a date format using
>
> gen dates=date(datestr, "MDY")
>
> dates is generated, but its an empty column. Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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