Re: st: date command error?

[Ryan Kessler <ryan.kessler.stata@gmail.com>]

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
<archstevej@gmail.com> 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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