st: aggregate by high frequency data

[tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com>]

Hello all, 

    My dataset looks follows

 

                read_date   hits |
      |---------------------------|
   1. | 04jan2011 01:01:41      1 |
   2. | 04jan2011 01:03:07      1 |
   3. | 04jan2011 01:04:06      1 |
   4. | 04jan2011 01:08:21      1 |
   5. | 04jan2011 01:09:28      1 |
      |---------------------------|
   6. | 04jan2011 01:10:26      1 |
   7. | 04jan2011 01:27:03      1 |
   8. | 04jan2011 01:44:22      1 |
   9. | 04jan2011 01:45:56      1 |
  10. | 04jan2011 01:51:23      1 |
      |---------------------------|
  11. | 04jan2011 01:51:39      1 |
  12. | 04jan2011 01:51:58      1 |
  13. | 04jan2011 01:52:59      1 |
  14. | 04jan2011 01:53:41      1 |
  15. | 04jan2011 01:58:12      1 |
      |---------------------------|
  16. | 04jan2011 01:58:34      1 |
  17. | 04jan2011 02:05:04      1 |
  18. | 04jan2011 02:16:45      1 |
  19. | 04jan2011 02:18:06      1 |
  20. | 04jan2011 02:22:34      1 |
      |---------------------------|
  21. | 04jan2011 02:26:49      1 |
  22. | 04jan2011 02:27:05      1 |
  23. | 04jan2011 02:27:43      1 |
  24. | 04jan2011 02:31:15      1 |
  25. | 04jan2011 02:33:20      1 |


If I want to aggregate hits per day, then I would do sth like 

 

gen daily=dofc(read_date)

collapse (sum) hits, by(daily)

 

Does anyone have any idea aggregating per min or per hr or per sec for that matter? There doesn't seem to have a date-related command to do that both in manual and help? 

 

Tashi 		 	   		  
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