Mdy Stata. In the following table the first column shows different date formats in which the date is already recorded and brought into stata. 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.
Mdy and date. 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.
Every day the airplane takes off from houston for london.
For instance at 2 p m. To convert them into a stata date the example code is shown in the second column. Stata records pure time values clock times independent of date the same way. 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.
