There were various other answers to
this question. In addition, there is an FAQ
dedicated to the question and a command
-todate- from SSC ditto.
FAQ . Handling date information when numbers are in a continuous sequence
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2/03 How do I convert date variables into Stata elapsed
dates when the numbers run together, like 4151999?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/dateseq.html
Nick
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Nuno Soares
> I have a file that has a variable date using the format YYMMDD, and I
> haven't been able to import it as a date format to Stata.
> I've been using
> the -infix- command. I don't have any problem to import it as
> number but
> then I would loose the date information. For instance, I have one
> observation that has 000112, i.e., 2000/01/12 and Stata reads
> it as 112...
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