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| From | Steven Archambault <archstevej@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: date command error? |
| Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:19:24 -0700 |
Hi all, I am running Stata 12 on a Mac, and am having trouble with the date command. My datestr values are in the format MM/DD/YY I am trying to convert these to a date format using gen dates=date(datestr, "MDY") dates is generated, but its an empty column. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, Steve * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/