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Re: st: Stata bug? - Mixture of European/US dates using import excel
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Stata bug? - Mixture of European/US dates using import excel
Date
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:00:32 -0600
On Feb 7, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Phillips, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess that problem I have with Stata is your comment: ' For dates, it does this by converting the date into the human readable format %tdnn/dd/CCYY.'
>
> I am not in the US and my computer (windows, MS officem, etc.) is set to show dates as %tddd/nn/CCYY. It would be good if Stata could know this rather than assuming I want mm/dd/CCYY. [Why is there not a c(dateformat)?]
Agreed -- this format should be configurable.
> The moral is that an Excel spreadsheet is a poor way of transferring data.
It's difficult to disagree with that.
-- Phil
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