README.md

Description

Convert Stata strings to date-time. I have to do this fairly often and this is a convenient wrapper for the built-in clock, date, dofc functions.

Requirements

I only have access to Stata 13.1, so I impose that to be the minimum. The command is really simple, however, so I would not be surprised if it worked with earlier versions.

Installation

net install todatetime, from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mcaceresb/stata-todatetime/master/)

Examples

sysuse gnp96
tostring date, format(%td_NN/DD/CCYY) gen(datestr) force
todatetime datestr, gen(dateback) datefmt(MDY)
assert date == dateback