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Since Stata treats date variables as numeric, asdoc reports the numeric variable without formating it as a Stata date. I think it can be fixed sometime in future, but at the moment, the trick is to convert the date variable first to a string and then use it with asdoc, like this
tostring Time_period, gen(time) u force bys time:asdoc sum Lerner_w