At 03:36 PM 6/7/2009, Brock wrote:
I need to format a date as
month, day. Yes, I want my date to exclude and ignore the
year.
It doesn't look like there's a date format you can attach to a variable
so it'll display as 'MON-dy' or whatever. If you can stand converting
your SPSS dates to string variables for display (and only for display!),
you can use string manipulation. Be careful! No matter how you
display it, an SPSS date always contains a year. Make sure the
years are right, if you compare values or compute intervals between
values.
But, here are dates, converted to strings with month-day only, in two
formats:
STRING MDayDate (A10) MDayAmer (A10).
* Minimum widths are 6 and 5, respectively .
COMPUTE MDayDate = SUBSTR(STRING(In_Date,DATE11) ,1,6).
COMPUTE MdayAmer = SUBSTR(STRING(In_Date,ADATE10),1,5).
LIST
List
|-----------------------------|---------------------------|
|Output
Created
|07-JUN-2009 17:29:33 |
|-----------------------------|---------------------------|
In_Date MDayDate MDayAmer
04-JUL-1776 04-JUL 07/04
06-JUN-1944 06-JUN 06/06
07-JUN-2009 07-JUN 06/07
Number of cases read: 3 Number of cases
listed: 3
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APPENDIX: Test data, and code
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DATA LIST FREE /In_Date (DATE).
BEGIN DATA
04-JUL-1776 06-JUN-1944 07-JUN-2009
END DATA.
LIST.
* Minimum widths are 6 and 5, respectively .
STRING MDayDate (A10) MDayAmer (A10).
COMPUTE MDayDate = SUBSTR(STRING(In_Date,DATE11) ,1,6).
COMPUTE MdayAmer = SUBSTR(STRING(In_Date,ADATE10),1,5).
LIST.
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