st: format of S_DATE global

[Pablo Bonilla <pablo.bonilla1234@gmail.com>]

Dear Stata list,
In the middle of a program I need to save in a csv file the exact date
and time in which the program was used by somebody in my office.  I
use the following script in the middle of the program:

tempname hh
file open `hh' using "C:\data\time.csv ", write text append
file write `hh'  "$S_DATE, $S_TIME, `pais', `year', `survey' " _n
file close `hh'

When I open the CSV file in Excel it understands correctly those dates
which its days are greater than 10 (e.g., 16 Aug 2012, 15 Apr 2012, 23
Jul 2012) but those which its days are smaller than 10 (e.g., 6 Aug
2012, 5 Apr 2012, 3 Jul 2012) Excel cannot read them as dates. I would
like to know if I kind change the format of the S_DATE global, so it
will display 08/16/2012 instead of 16 Aug 2012, So Excel can
understand. Any other suggestion is more than welcome.

Thanks


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Pablo Bonilla
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