Re: st: Time to maturity

[Ferdinand Siagian <fsiagian@maine.edu>]

Thanks Steve.

Ferdinand

On 10/18/11 2:52 PM, Steve Nakoneshny wrote:
> Hi Ferdinand,
>
> I would convert the date variables into Stata date format first, see -help date- for how to do this.
> > From there, -gen newdate= (maturity date - transaction date)- and -format newdate %td- should get you there.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Nakoneshny
> scnakone@ucalgary.ca
>
>
>
>
> On 2011-10-18, at 12:46 PM, Ferdinand Siagian wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a data set with transaction dates and maturity dates in YYYYMMDD
> > format. The data Type is long and the format is %12.0g. I have been
> > trying to calculate the number of days from the transaction date to the
> > maturity date (or time to maturity) but could not find the best way to
> > do it. Example:
> >
> > Transaction date        Maturity date
> > 20090120                20100520
> > 20100315                20110825
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> > Best,
> > Ferdinand
> >
> >
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