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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Converting string variables into date variables |
| Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:30:34 +0000 |
For future reference, see HRF-to-SIF conversion functions under -help dates and times-. Nick On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Heslin, Margaret <margaret.heslin@kcl.ac.uk> wrote: > Thanks so much, Phil. This worked perfectly!!! Phil Clayton > You need to specify the century. Try: > gen DVadmission1 = date(Admission_date_1_12M, "DM20Y") On 05/03/2013, at 9:31 PM, MargaretHeslin <Margaret.Heslin@kcl.ac.uk> wrote: >> I have dates in a string format as follows (dmy): >> >> 19.09.02 >> 01.12.09 etc >> >> I have tried using the following command to convert to date format but >> the new variable comes up blank. Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong? >> >> DVadmission1 is new new date variable >> Admission_date_1_12M is the origianl string date variable >> >> gen DVadmission1 = date(Admission_date_1_12M, "DMY") format >> DVadmission1 %td * * 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/