Please do remember to flag if you are working with an outdated Stata
(not 11).
To put the main point more emphatically, official Stata introduced
functions for clock times in Stata 10. There were no such official
functions in Stata 9.2.
Nick
[email protected]
Martin Weiss
There is an entry in
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-help dates_and_times-
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that says:
" Historical note: Stata 10's date() function is much improved over
that
of previous versions, and the mask is
specified a little differently. In previous versions, the codes
for
year, month, and date were y, m, and d
rather than Y, M, and D. Under version control, the old codes
are
allowed and, in fact, the original date()
function is used.
The big advantage of Stata 10's date() is that it will translate
run-together dates such as 20061201 (no
special action by you required) and translate more complicated
date
strings such as Wed Dec 01 14:22:43 CST
2006 (special action required in how mask is specified,
something
that the old date() would not have
understood)."
[email protected]
Is there anything similar for v9.2?
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di year(dofc(clock("Dec/17/1998 11:30:00 PM", "MDY hms")))
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