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Re: st: RE: dates and elapsed time
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"Michael N. Mitchell" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: dates and elapsed time
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Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:51:54 -0700
In addition to Kieran's helpful answer, I would also recommend
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/modules/dates.htm
which contains a quick rundown of dates in Stata.
I hope that helps,
Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-08-09 4.05 PM, Kieran McCaul wrote:
...
You need to use the -date- function.
di %d date("17-Mar-85", "DM19Y")
So, if you have dates stored as strings in two variables, date1 and
date2:
gen firstdate = date(date1, "DM19Y")
gen seconddate = date(date2, "DM19Y")
format firstdate seconddate %d
gen n_days = seconddate - firstdate
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirsten Beyer
Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2010 6:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: dates and elapsed time
Hello,
I am relatively new to STATA and have been unsuccessful in formatting
two
dates, then calculating the number of days between them.
Dates are in the following format: 17-Mar-85
Any advice?
KB
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