Thanks, Nick.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: st: date format
The format of the variable, here %dN/D/Y, is essentially a cosmetic matter.
What you should be worried about is whether some of the values are about a
century out, because of some previous error on reading the data into Stata.
Suppose the variable concerned is called -date-.
count if year(date) < 1910
will reveal how many are a century out. If there are some they need fixing
by
replace date = mdy(month(date), day(date), year(date) + 100) if
year(date) < 1910
and you need to revise analyses done with these data.
Nick
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Terra Curtis wrote
I have a variable of type %dN/D/Y. Some of the dates are in years
2000-2005. When I sort by this variable, Stata seems to recognize some of
the 2000-2005 dates as 1900-1905, hence putting them as the earliest date
rather than the most recent. Any ideas as to how to get Stata to recognize
01/01/05 as a 2005 date rather than 1905?
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