Mingfeng wrote:
Is there a way to tell Stata to recognize a time stamp like this, with
both date and time?
11JAN02:10:45:41
I know how to read in the two parts separately (the date 11JAN02 and
the time 10:45:41) but don't know how to read them in together, so
that Stata not only knows 11JAN02:10:45:41 is different from
12JAN02:10:45:41, but can also give a meaningful calculation (such as
the difference between the two times, most likely in terms of
seconds).
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Official Stata does not (yet?) handle this, but there are good unofficial
commands. Try:
findit date time
Among many other things it points to:
SJ-6-1 dm0018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Time of day
(help ntimeofday, stimeofday if installed) . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q1/06 SJ 6(1):124--137
converting back and forth between string and numeric
representations for time-of-day calculations
Hope this helps
Svend
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