Aha! You are right (of course). I _am_ an idiot. I'm too embarrassed to
explain where I went wrong. Thanks, Nick, for inadvertently making me see the
light.
Danielle
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National Bureau of Economic Research <http://www.nber.org>
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:53:38 -0000
Subject: st: RE: Time/Date Functions
> You're not telling us everything, I surmise,
> as there's nothing wrong with your syntax.
>
> . clear
>
> . set obs 1
> obs was 0, now 1
>
> . gen month = 1
>
> . gen day = 1
>
> . gen year = 2000
>
> . tempvar time
>
> . ge `time' = mdy(month, day, year)
>
> . ge junk = month(`time')
>
> . l
>
> +--------------------------------------+
> | month day year __000000 junk |
> |--------------------------------------|
> 1. | 1 1 2000 14610 1 |
> +--------------------------------------+
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
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