st: hours:minutes:seconds

[Christa Scholtz <cscholtz@Princeton.EDU>]

Hi,

I have a data field where the duration of an event is recorded in this
format:

hour:minute:second

 eg:  an event that lasts 5 hours, 27 minutes and 13 seconds is 5:27:13.



How do I get Stata to convert this into total number of seconds?

Thanks,

Christa



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