Re: st: Fwd: changing the format of the current date

[Melanie Leis <melanieleis@gmail.com>]

Thanks Bill and Nick, this is very helpful.

Nevertheless, the reason I'd like to change the format on
c(current_date) is to incorporate it into the name of a file.  What
I've been doing is:

     local c_date= c(current_date)
     local date_string = subinstr("`c_date'", " " , "-", .)
     save "`date_string'_example", replace

Which yields a file name 22-May-2013_example

I'd like a file name that is more like 2013_05_22_example

Incorporating your suggestion I get:

     local date= %td_CCYY_NN_DD date(c(current_date), "DMY")
     local date_string = subinstr("`date'", " " , "-", .)
     save "`date_string'_example", replace

But after the first local macro I get an error that says

     %td_CCYY_NN_DD invalid name

Any suggestions on how I could fix this?

Thank you so much!

Melanie

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:10 PM, William Gould, StataCorp LP
<wgould@stata.com> wrote:
> Melanie Leis <melanieleis@gmail.com> wrote,
>
>> Is there a way to change the format of the automated date in
>> c(current_date)?
>>
>> The automatic format is 22 May 2013
>>
>> I would like to get something that looks like 2013 05 22
>
>
> There's already been one good answer.  Here's another,
>
>         . display %td_CCYY_NN_DD date(c(current_date), "DMY")
>         2013 05 22
>
>
> -- Bill
> wgould@stata.com
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