Re: st: RE: "Hours" in Stata

[C Engelbrecht <cngelbrecht@gmail.com>]

Thank you very much!

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> wrote:
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> di in r hours(clock("05nov2009 16:26:33", "DMYhms")-clock("04nov2009
> 17:01:54", "DMYhms"))
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> HTH
> Martin
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of C Engelbrecht
> Sent: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2010 22:34
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: "Hours" in Stata
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I can't seem to find an answer to this in the Stata manual (version
> 11) so hopefully someone can help me with it. I have two time
> variables in a dataset (%tc format), and I want to find out the
> difference in them measured in hours. For example
>
> 04nov2009 17:01:54
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> and
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> 05nov2009 16:26:33
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>
> The hh() function only extracts the "hour" portion. It helps, but not
> easy to use in this case (when more than one day is involved). I tried
> subtracting them directly, but I'm not sure what's the "unit" for %tc
> variables.
>
> Thanks!
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