st: Re: Show formats in -display-?

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Please try the built-in help before asking the list.  -help display- will 
show you how to specify formats


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danielle H. Ferry" <dferry@nber.org>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:40 PM
Subject: st: Show formats in -display-?



> Hi,
> I have a variable, time, which is formatted as %tm. I want to find the 
> most
> recent date for which I have data, save that date in a local macro, and
> display that time before I do some stuff. However, if I say something 
> this:
>
> di "`maxTime'"
>
> ... then I see the Stata elapsed time rather than something like 2006m1. 
> How
> can I make it show the formatted time?
>
> Danielle Ferry
>
> --
> National Bureau of Economic Research <http://www.nber.org>
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