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RE: st: RE: RE: preserving leading zeros in destring


From   Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   RE: st: RE: RE: preserving leading zeros in destring
Date   Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:46:58 -0700

thanks!

Pleased you solved your problem.

On the last point: I would not take it upon myself to comment on what is
kosher.

On what is in order on Statalist: There are no precise rules and I
wouldn't want to propose any. So it is anybody's judgment call. But my
prejudices are firm: archiving by thread is valuable to all who search
the archives, and so even if threads wiggle and waggle a bit, and most
do, keeping threads together is important.

So I'd advise renaming a thread only if there is a complete change of
subject, not the case here.

Nick
[email protected]

Michael McCulloch

To summarize, Nick Cox suggested below a solution to my problem,
which was that in Stata 9.2, after importing dates from Excel.csv in
the format "MM/DD/YY", I couldn't get -date- to work.

Here's the solution, succinctly, in which an Excel spreadsheet saved
in *.csv format contains a variable called date, formatted with Excel
date format MM/DD/YY:

insheet using "my_sheet.csv", clear
gen newdate= date(date, "mdy", 2010)
format newdate %d
list

My apologies for not having specified I'm using Stata 9.2

As a matter of Statalist procedure, in a case like this where the
answer isn't reflected in the title of my original post, is it Kosher
to re-submit the problem & solution in a newly titled post, so others
may find it more easily when searching the Statalist archives?

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