Mdy Stata. To convert them into a stata date the example code is shown in the second column. Rather than thinking of the numeric value as the number of milliseconds since 01jan1960 however think of it as the number of milliseconds since the beginning of the day.
Our data are in the order day month year so we use dmy or dmy if you are using stata 9 within the date command. Before we can use the stata time series or panel data capabilities we need to convert the string date to a stata date. To convert them into a stata date the example code is shown in the second column.
Mdy and date.
In stata 9 it should be lower case e g dmy and in stata 10 it should be upper case for day month and year e g dmy but lower case if you want to specify hours minutes or seconds e g dmyhms. In the following table the first column shows different date formats in which the date is already recorded and brought into stata. Stata provides functions to convert dates into elapsed dates formats to print elapsed dates in understandable forms and other functions to manipulate elapsed dates. A stata date is simply a number but with the td format applied stata will interpret that number as number of days since january 1 1960 you can then use that number in a variety of ways.
