read_stata does not convert dates
Running Pandas 0.19.2 on Python 3.5.2 (macOS), the docstring for the `read_stata` function indicates that its function is to "Convert date variables to DataFrame time values"

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Yet, setting this to true does not perform this, nor does passing a list of date variables as an argument (as works with other `read_*` functions. The data type remains as an `object`:

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