AW: st: extract hours, minutes and seconds from date

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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" Use -double-s throughout."



That was my knee-jerk reaction also. But this code leads to the same predicament:

*************
clear
drop _all
set obs 1
gen double time = clock("30dec1999 08:50:00", "DMYhms")
format time %tc
list
gen double hour = hhC(time)
gen double minute = mmC(time)
gen double sec = ssC(time)
list
*************

Omitting the "C", i.e. the leap second accounting, solved the problem for me, weirdly enough.


HTH
Martin


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Gesendet: Freitag, 21. Mai 2010 12:39
An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Betreff: RE: st: extract hours, minutes and seconds from date

I guess Maarten is being bitten by precision here. By default he is getting just -float-s for the later -generate-s. Use -double-s throughout. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Maarten buis

--- On Fri, 21/5/10, raoul reulen wrote:
> I have a date variable that looks like this:
> 
> 30dec1999 08:50:00
> 
> and I want to extract the hour, minutes, and seconds part
> of it

I thought I had an answer, but in my case the minutes and
seconds part seems to be slightly off (49 minutes instead of
50, and 38 seconds instead of 0):

*---------------- begin example ------------------
clear
drop _all
set obs 1
gen double time = clock("30dec1999 08:50:00", "DMYhms")
format time %tc
list
gen hour = hhC(time)
gen minute = mmC(time)
gen sec = ssC(time)
list
*----------------- end example --------------------

Maybe somebody else can explain where these differences
come from.

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