Re: Missing values for dates A surprise to me.

Posted by Bruce Weaver on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Missing-values-for-dates-A-surprise-to-me-tp5740743p5740745.html

Hi Art.  It works for me using SPSS 26.0.0.1 (Windows 10).  I'm not surprised, given that date variables are really numeric variables.  And the Overview for MISSING VALUES in the CSR does include this bullet point:

* For date format variables (for example, DATE, ADATE), missing values expressed in date formats must be enclosed in single or double quotes, and values must be expressed in the same date format as the defined date format for the variable.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-statistics/26.0.0?topic=values-overview-missing-command

I assume you saw that, given the use of quotes in your code.  

Art Kendall wrote

My version 27 of SPSS was on Windows 10.

The syntax worked in SPSS 24 on Windows 10.

Has anybody else tried the syntax I posted?