st: is it stata or something else acting off

[tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com>]

Hello all, 
    I have my syntax options capitalised to allow abbreviation. It works with all other options listed below except startdate and enddate. Here is the detail. 

program foo
syntax, [DOC_type(str)] [ANALYST(str)]  [TICKER(str)] [SECTOR(str)] STARTdate(str) ENDdate(str) [FIRM(int -1)] [STAT(str)]
if "`doc_type'"!=""{
  odbc load, exec("select count(*) from reader where read_date between '`start'' and '`end''")
  ............
  ............
}
end 

foo, doc(company) start(2011-01-01) end(2011-04-01) firm(567) 

  The ODBC driver reported the following diagnostics
[MonetDB][ODBC Driver 11.9.5]timestamp () has incorrect format
22007!timestamp () has incorrect format
SQLSTATE=22007
r(682);

while 

program foo
syntax, [DOC_type(str)] [ANALYST(str)]  [TICKER(str)] [SECTOR(str)] START(str) END(str) [FIRM(int -1)] [STAT(str)]
if "`doc_type'"!=""{
  odbc load, exec("select count(*) from reader where read_date between '`start'' and '`end''")
  ............
  ............
}
end 

foo, doc(company) start(2011-01-01) end(2011-04-010 firm(567)   works..

Any idea??

Thanks, 
Tashi foo, doc(company) start(2011-01-01) end(2011-04-01) firm(567) foo, doc(company) start(2011-01-01) end(2011-04-01) firm(567) foo, doc(company) start(2011-01-01) end(2011-04-01) firm(567) foo, doc(company) start(2011-01-01) end(2011-04-01) firm(567)  		 	   		  
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