Set baseline category of date variable

[Henry Strawforrd]

I want to set the baseline category of a date variable. I thought of using fvset, see below. It doesn't seem to allow specifying dates as baseline categories.

Any ideas?

MWE:

clear
sysuse xtline1.dta

gen random = runiform()
gen binary = (random > 0.5)

fvset td(09feb2002) day
reg calories ib0.binary##i.day

[Andrew Musau]

The following is allowed:

reg calories ib0.binary##ib`=td(09feb2002)'.day

[Dimitriy V. Masterov]

Alternatively, you can:

fvset base `=td(09feb2002)' day