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st: changing date format
From
"Mike Kim" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: changing date format
Date
Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:11:50 -0500
Dear Statalisters,
I imported daily stock data from CRSP. The data shows date like this:
tradedate
20010102
20010103
20010104
20010105
20010106
20010107
......
Neither of the following commands works:
- format tradedate %td
- gen date=date(tradedate, "MDY")
I split tradedae into month, day, year in excel, imported into Stata, and
used the following command to combine them.
- gen date=mdy(month,day,year)
Is there any way I can change tradedate into Stata date format without using
excel?
Thank you in advance,
Mike.
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