Date:         Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:48:21 -0500
Reply-To:     Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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From:         Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
Subject:      Suggestion: Date formats without punctuation
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It's fairly common for data to come in with dates represented as
unpunctuated strings, or as numbers whose decimal representation is
such a string:
'20080211' or '02112008' for today, 11-FEB-2008.

Just recently, a couple of posters have asked how to convert these to
SPSS dates; answers have been posted.

I wouldn't recommend these representations; but since they occur, it
would be useful to have SPSS date formats for them:


Format  Description   Min w   General   Examples
type                          form    28-OCT-1990 11-FEB-2008
-------------------------------------------------------------
YMDx    Unpunctuated  6       yymmdd    901028      080211
         YrMnthDay     8       yyyymmdd  19901028    20080211
-------------------------------------------------------------
MDYx    Unpunctuated  6       mmddyy    102890      021108
         MnthDayYear   8       mmddyyyy  10281990    02112008
-------------------------------------------------------------

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