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| From | Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu> |
| To | Statalist Statalist <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Stata bug? - Mixture of European/US dates using import excel |
| Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:00:32 -0600 |
On Feb 7, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Phillips, Patrick <patrick.phillips@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > I guess that problem I have with Stata is your comment: ' For dates, it does this by converting the date into the human readable format %tdnn/dd/CCYY.' > > I am not in the US and my computer (windows, MS officem, etc.) is set to show dates as %tddd/nn/CCYY. It would be good if Stata could know this rather than assuming I want mm/dd/CCYY. [Why is there not a c(dateformat)?] Agreed -- this format should be configurable. > The moral is that an Excel spreadsheet is a poor way of transferring data. It's difficult to disagree with that. -- Phil * * 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/