Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:29:50 -0400
Reply-To: KEVIN MANNING <kmannin4@jhmi.edu>
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From: KEVIN MANNING <kmannin4@jhmi.edu>
Subject: Re: Quick solution for a date problem?
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Thank you. Unfortunately, I do not have any additional syntax or output; this data was entered by a student of a colleague (and the student is no longer here). So I am not sure if the student actually entered the dates "1902" (all four digits) or what, but the dates should range from 1998-2002. We have checked the options for the century as you have specified, no luck. Regardless, thanks for your help.
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:16 pm
Subject: Re: Quick solution for a date problem?
To: KEVIN MANNING <kmannin4@jhmi.edu>, SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Cc: "Oliver, Richard" <roliver@spss.com>, Melissa Ives <mives@chestnut.org>
> At 03:48 PM 6/28/2007, KEVIN MANNING wrote:
>
> >Date is entered as a variable as dd/mm/yyyy, but for some reason the
>
> >dates for 2000+ are reading as dd/mm/1901, dd/mm/1902, ...instead of
>
> >dd/mm/2001, so on. Anyone know of an easy way to fix this problem?
>
> See Richard Oliver's reply, but you can see that he's a bit mystified,
>
> too.
>
> As general advice: When you aren't getting the result you want, it
> helps if you can give us the exact syntax that seems not to be
> working;
> some test data, with some input you passed to the syntax; and the
> output from that data and the syntax, with any error or warning
> messages exactly as they were printed. And, what output you wanted
> instead of the output you got.
>
> The more we know, the more we can help. And debugging is like
> proofreading, or medical diagnosis: It's the details, and the exact
> information, that matter.
>
> -Good luck, and by all means give us a follow-up post,
> Richard
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