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Martin's advice for formatting months seems to be rather dangerous:
. format month %12.0g
. l
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| strdate numdate year month day week dow |
|--------------------------------------------------------|
1. | 20090102 02jan2009 2009 1 2 1 5 |
2. | 20090107 07jan2009 2009 1 7 1 3 |
3. | 20090112 12jan2009 2009 1 12 2 1 |
4. | 20090126 26jan2009 2009 1 26 4 1 |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
. format month %tmmon
. l
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| strdate numdate year month day week dow |
|--------------------------------------------------------|
1. | 20090102 02jan2009 2009 feb 2 1 5 |
2. | 20090107 07jan2009 2009 feb 7 1 3 |
3. | 20090112 12jan2009 2009 feb 12 2 1 |
4. | 20090126 26jan2009 2009 feb 26 4 1 |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
The month should be jan, not feb.
Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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