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Re: st: dates


From   Gary Longton <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: dates
Date   Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:21:51 -0700

There was a pattern typo (twice) in my previous reply:
p(ddmmyyy) should have been p(ddmmyyyy)

- Gary

Gary Longton wrote:

Rodrigo Briceno wrote:

Dear statalisters. I reviewed the FAQ about how to handle dates and I
discovered some interesting functions to deal with dates. I have a little
problem with the dates I have, because the order of mm-dd-yy is not present.
My dates are dd-mm-yy. I downloaded the "todate" program, and I was capable
to convert the dates in several files that I have, but other files has this
different structure. Does anyone knows how to handle with this feature?

-todate- should do it. Look at the help file a little more carefully.

-todate- doesn't require mm-dd-yy order. In fact, it requires that you specify the order with the pattern option. in your case, ddmmyyy, i.e.

todate adm_date dis_date, p(ddmmyyy) gen(adm_date2 dis_date2)

- Gary

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