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Re: st: date/time question
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: date/time question
Date
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:48:34 +0000
In addition if you have only one colon (no seconds), just add ":00" or
":30" (whichever makes more sense) to such values.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the last
>
> "26/12/2008 09:51:17:210"
>
> is problematic but
>
> "26/12/2008 09:51:17.210"
>
> isn't. So whenever you have three colons the last must be changed to a
> stop or period.
>
> A test for three colons is
>
> if (length(mydate) - length(subinstr(mydate, ":", "",.))) == 3
>
> and you can change it by
>
> reverse(subinstr(reverse(mydate), ":", ".", 1))
>
> Code not tested.
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Dimitri Szerman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a string variable which contains information on dates and time.
>> It looks like this:
>>
>> input str23 mytime
>> "24/12/2008 10:21"
>> "25/12/2008 09:01:27"
>> "25/12/2008 09:23:23"
>> "25/12/2008 09:36:03"
>> "26/12/2008 09:00:27:803"
>> "26/12/2008 09:31:43:163"
>> "26/12/2008 09:49:03:943"
>> "26/12/2008 09:49:35:913"
>> "26/12/2008 09:51:17:210"
>> end
>>
>> I'm trying to convert this into a numeric variable. My ideas was
>>
>> gen double numtime = clock(mytime, "DMY hms")
>> format numtime %tC
>>
>> But that's giving me missing values. I guess my problem is, the
>> appropriate mask changes (for observation 1 it should be "DMY hm", for
>> observations 2-4, "DMY hms", and for observations 5-9, I have no
>> idea).
>>
>> By the way, I'm importing many ASCII files in loop, so sometimes I
>> have only the "DMY hm" format, sometimes only the "25/12/2008
>> 09:01:27" format, and sometimes a mix of the three formats above.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to solve this problem efficiently?
>
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