how to create the start and end date for a year

[Lucy Garcia]

Dear statalist,

This might be an easy question, but I didn't figure out how to do this. Say I have a set of years, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020 etc, I want to create two dates, start date and end date, to account for the first day and last day of the year, e.g., 01jan2010 and 31dec2010, how to create these two variables? Thanks a lot for your help.

[Clyde Schechter]

* Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex
clear
input float year
2010
2014
2015
2019
end

gen first_day = mdy(1,1,year)
gen last_day = mdy(12, 31, year)
format *_day %td

[Lucy Garcia]

Thanks Clyde : )