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These functions convert dates and times recorded as strings to Stata dates. Stata dates are numbers that can be formatted so that they look like the dates you are familiar with.
6 lip 2015 · The Stata date function is smart about removing separator characters. See help datetime_translation under the section "the date function". If your dates are in v1 and in the form yyyy-mm-dd you can specify the commands: generate v2 = date(v1, "YMD") format %td v2.
Use a conversion function (F) Format the new variable. (B) Numerically encoded dates/times brought into Stata with import excel, import sas, or import spss will automatically be converted to Stata dates/datetimes.
To convert to a Stata date, type. . generate statadate = dofc((spsstime*1000) + tc(14oct1582 00:00)) . format statadate %td. Converting R dates. s dates as days since 01jan1970.
4 lut 2019 · Hi, I am encountered with a problem in converting a string variable to date format to enable time series analysis. My string variable looks like this: 0117
You can convert dates stored as strings to Stata dates by using the string-to-numeric conversion functions; see Converting dates stored as strings to Stata dates. You can make Stata dates readable by placing the appropriate %fmt on the numeric variable; see Formatting Stata dates for display.
Two commands, date and format, are used to convert a string date into a numeric date. Within these functions you will need to specify how the date-time information is formatted in the string.
