I can't see unequivocally how the fractional part
conveys month and day but this sounds like an issue
discussed in
FAQ . Handling date information when numbers are in a continuous sequence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Reichel
2/03 How do I convert date variables into Stata elapsed
dates when the numbers run together, like 4151999?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/dateseq.html
You may find the -todate- command from SSC mentioned in the FAQ
of use, but I guess you will need to use -subinstr()- to zap the
decimal point first.
Nick
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Caleb Southworth
> How can decimal years be read into stata? The data are %9.4f
> and identify
> year, month and day, for example
>
> event1
> 1932.2880
> 1949.0410
> 1939.4270
>
> I would like to be able to extract the mdy and to be able to tsset my
> data, the latter requiring integers.
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