st: RE: getting around tsset time variable integer restriction -Work with minutes???

["Rajesh Tharyan" <R.Tharyan@exeter.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Coudn' t you work with minutes??

gen min=(original_half_hour_variable)*60
and then use the tsset command 

regards
rajesh


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Zachary Byron
Singer
Sent: 08 February 2006 03:02
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: getting around tsset time variable integer restriction

Hi,

Does anyone know how to get around the integer limitation for tsset?  I am
dealing with a very large time series: 149,000 observations, each
representing a different half hour from october 1996 to april 2005.
tsset will not allow me to use the half hour as my unit of time, since the
time variable is restricted to integers, ie numbers between [-32767,
32740].  If stata cannot handle this, is there another software package
that can?

Thanks,

Zach Singer
Harvard College 2006
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