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Re: st: date command error?


From   Ryan Kessler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: date command error?
Date   Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:33:49 -0500

Oops --- wrong link. Here is the correct one -->
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/string_dates.htm

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Ryan Kessler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> You need to deal with your two-digit years. For example:
>
> input str25 datestr
> "01/15/96"
> "01/15/1996"
> "01/15/2013"
> "01/15/13"
> end
>
> gen dates = date(datestr, "MDY", 2013)
> format dates %td
>
> Documentation here -->
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-01/msg00548.html
>
> Ryan Kessler
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Steven Archambault
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am running Stata 12 on a Mac, and am having trouble with the date command.
>>
>> My datestr values are in the format MM/DD/YY
>>
>> I am trying to convert these to a date format using
>>
>> gen dates=date(datestr, "MDY")
>>
>> dates is generated, but its an empty column. Is there something I'm missing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
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