Presenting the date on stata line graph

[Ellie Jones]

Hi,

I am new to Stata and wondering if anyone can help me present the date on the x axis of my line graph.
I currently have the variables day, month and year separate and would like to combine them on my x axis. I have seen other posts/ information guides mentioning creating a time series?

Any help would be great

[Nick Cox]

If you have daily data then daily dates follow from something like

gen ddate = mdy(month, day, year) 

format ddate %td

[Ellie Jones]

That works great, thanks for the reply.
The data I am using contains 12,000+ points and upon plotting it looks very clustered.
Is there a way of showing the overall trend?

[Nick Cox]

What is your recipe for identifying overall trend?