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Re: st: Date string to date
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lars Folkestad <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Date string to date
Date
Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:27:52 +0100
I gather Stata will do it the one way or the other? I assume Stata will know that 31/1 is dm and 4/15 is md, but what does it do when its 6/8 or 8/6?
Lars
> Den 24/11/2013 kl. 16.55 skrev Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
>
> Whatever you do you will need to watch out for values such as 8/6 and
> 6/8 for DM and MD.
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
>> On 24 November 2013 13:45, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> <>
>>
>> It should be. The only question is how best to do it.
>>
>> For example,
>>
>> gen double ndate = date(sdate, "MDY hm")
>> replace ndate = date(sdate, "DMY hm") if missing(ndate)
>>
>> might be sufficient.
>>
>> Note that "4/15/2011 9:30" is "MDY hm" not dmy (or DMY).
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>> On 24 November 2013 12:55, lars Folkestad <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear List
>>>
>>> I have a string variable where the dates entered are not stricky dmy it looks like this
>>> date
>>> 12/15/2010 10:50 (mdy)
>>> 24-MAY-2010 9:43 (dmy)
>>> 4/15/2011 9:30 (dmy)
>>>
>>> Is it possible to create a date variable from this ditectly?
>>>
>>> Lars
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