Warning for license expiration

[Kyle BK]

Hi there,

We run Stata in a shared server environment and are surprised every year by the sudden annual expiration of Stata. Yes, I could set a calendar event for 360 days from today but I am wondering if Stata offers any solutions. Is there an option or work-around that would lead to Stata giving license expiration warnings 1 or 2 weeks in advance?

Thanks,

Kyle

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Don't you see this expiry date every time you start up Stata? You could also type -about- to see it.

A possible workaround is to put some code into your -profile.do- or similar that shows a warning within X days of the expiry. Since I don't see the information returned from -about-, the easiest way is to hard-code a solution, and update it once a year.

local expires_soon = ( td(14may2023) - today() ) < 14
if `expires_soon' {
  di as err "Warning: Stata license will expire within 2 weeks."
}