Date:         Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:55:02 -0300
Reply-To:     ricardosilva@SERASA.COM.BR
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From:         Ricardo G Silva <ricardosilva@SERASA.COM.BR>
Subject:      Changing variables formats
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Dear Users,

I have an unbalanced panel data set of firms. There is a date variable 
which is formated as ddmmyy10. It begins on 01/01/1999 and finishes at 
01/02/2007, that is, from 1 to 98 values. I cannot just do something like 
dt=day(date)||month(date)||year(date);
since I will tranpose this table in a next step and I will nedd to keep 
the temporal order.
So, I would like to create a new date2 variable relating each date in the 
date variable to a number of the date2 variable.

Any idea about this issue?

Thanks 
Ricardo Gonçalves Silva, M. Sc.
Tecnologia de Crédito 
SERASA S.A. 
É (11) - 6847-8889
? ricardosilva@serasa.com.br