st: Re: date format

[Alexandra Griffiths <aegriffiths@googlemail.com>]

Dan,

Just use:

gen datenew=date( dateold, "YMD")
format datenew %td

If your date variable is not a string variable then run this (below) 
first to convert it to a string:

tostring datesold, replace

Hope this helps,

Alex

Rodriguez, Dan (Prop) wrote:

> Need to convert date format of YYYYMMDD into Stata date format. Does anyone have a short do-file to accomplish this?
>
> Thank you,
> Dan 
>   
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