| Date: | Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:57:54 +1000 |
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| Reply-To: | Michael McStephen <PSYMDM@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU> |
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| Sender: | "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Michael McStephen <PSYMDM@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU> |
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| Subject: | using $date in spss 6.1.4 for Win |
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| Content-type: | TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII |
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Hi,
I'm trying to use the system date variable $date to compute current
ages of subjects. The version of SPSS I'm using is 6.1.4 for Windows.
The syntax I'm trying to use is:
compute age = $date - dob.
execute.
where dob is a variable with the format dd-mmm-yyyy.
This is not working and I get the message that one of my operands is
not numeric. I understood that $date had the format dd-mmm-yyyy by
default.
The above syntax works fine using another dd-mmm-yyyy variable instead
of $date.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Michael.
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