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Re: st: Date string to date
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Date string to date
Date
Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:45:34 +0000
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It should be. The only question is how best to do it.
For example,
gen double ndate = date(sdate, "MDY hm")
replace ndate = date(sdate, "DMY hm") if missing(ndate)
might be sufficient.
Note that "4/15/2011 9:30" is "MDY hm" not dmy (or DMY).
Nick
[email protected]
On 24 November 2013 12:55, lars Folkestad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear List
>
> I have a string variable where the dates entered are not stricky dmy it looks like this
> date
> 12/15/2010 10:50 (mdy)
> 24-MAY-2010 9:43 (dmy)
> 4/15/2011 9:30 (dmy)
>
> Is it possible to create a date variable from this ditectly?
>
> Lars
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