StataCorp do lay claim to all the words of the English
language for command names, so this non-documented command
should be no surprise. (It is not -undocumented-.)
The -ntimeofday-, -stimeofday- commands published in
SJ 6(1) may be close to what you want.
Nick
[email protected]
Joseph Coveney
> Does anyone know what -timer- does or how to use it?
>
> . which timer
> built-in command: timer
>
> It wasn't there this February when I wrote my own little
> -timer.ado- to
> convert SAS's seconds-from-midnight into a Stata string
> (hh:mm:ss) for a
> project that's ongoing in fits and starts, so it's new since
> Release 9.2
> (Windows).
>
> -hsearch timer- doesn't turn up anything, and -help whatsnew- doesn't
> mention it.
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
> Meanwhile pressing on with my newly renamed
> oiuernwahfohergartimer.ado . . .
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