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Re: st: converting string to date


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: converting string to date
Date   Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:47:13 +0000

This works fine:

. di %td date("2004-01-04", "YMD")
04jan2004

Note the very simple -- but  from many posts on this list seemingly
little known -- technique of trying out a simple example using the
-display- command and a format that checks whether I get the right
answer.

But your approach also works fine in the examples I tried

. di %td date("2004-01-04", "20YMD")
04jan2004
. di %td date("1998-01-04", "20YMD")
04jan1998

so why did you say "does not seem to work"? Did you forget to assign a
date format so that what you see is human-readable?


Nick
[email protected]


On 29 November 2013 17:15, Nilay Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a dataset where weeks are listed as strings ie. 2004-01-04 - 2004-01-10. How can I convert this entire string to dates?
> I tried gen date1= date(var, “20YMD”) but that does not seem to work for this

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