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Assuming your data reside in mydata.txt, this should work:
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clear*
insheet using mydata.txt, comma
gen str30 mydateandtime = v1 +" "+ v2
gen double mydate=clock(mydateandtime , "DMYhms")
format mydate %tc
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HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2010 17:40
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Betreff: st: Problem with string time and importing text files
Dear All,
I am new to Stata and faced a daunting twofold problem the whole
afternoon. I have several data sets (in txt format) with variables
date (ddmmyyyy), time (hhmmss) and a certain measurement. First I am
unable to import the sample data shown below in to stata. Thus I have
to use SPSS to import the data and then convert it to Stata format.
That takes my precious time and I want to use Stata for my work.
After I converted the data to stata format, I formatted the date
variable by format date %dD_m_Y and got just what I wanted, but I
failed in using the time variable. I would appreciate if someone
would help so that I could learn for my future use. A sample of my
data is shown below. I am using stata 11.
27/10/2008,13:10:39,0.008
27/10/2008,13:11:39,0.017
27/10/2008,13:12:39,0.170
27/10/2008,13:13:39,0.032
27/10/2008,13:14:39,0.080
27/10/2008,13:15:39,0.009
27/10/2008,13:16:39,0.006
27/10/2008,13:17:39,0.007
27/10/2008,13:18:39,0.008
27/10/2008,13:19:39,0.011
27/10/2008,13:20:39,0.024
27/10/2008,13:21:39,0.131
Thanks
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