As you are realising, Stata needs to know the century,
20th, but your syntax is incorrect.
Something like
date(dxday, "dmy", 2050)
should work.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Thomas Speidel
> Sent: 08 March 2004 17:53
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: STRING to DATE
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to convert a string variable containing dates into a date
> variable using the DATE command.
> The dates in the string variable "dxday" are in the following format:
>
> 27-Oct-97
> 19-Sep-99
> 17-Nov-97
> ....
> I used the following command:
>
> . generate dxday2=date(dxday, "DM19Y")
> (50 missing values generated)
> Obviously, it did not work...
>
> Does anyone know if there is an easy way to format this type of date
> (DD-MMM-YY)?
> I guess the other way is to modify the data file directly to eliminate
> the dashes, but I wonder if there is a more elegant mehod.
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