useful commands:
1. help dates_and_times
Fro example: You have a date stored in "date", an example being "22/7/2010". In this case, you want to create an SIF(format stata understands) date instead of a datetime. You type
. gen eventdate = date(mystr, "DMY")
and then type so that stata displays the dates in a human readable format.
format eventdate %td
1. help dates_and_times
Fro example: You have a date stored in "date", an example being "22/7/2010". In this case, you want to create an SIF(format stata understands) date instead of a datetime. You type
. gen eventdate = date(mystr, "DMY")
and then type so that stata displays the dates in a human readable format.
format eventdate %td
