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Re: st: Epoch time (aka Unix time) in Stata
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Epoch time (aka Unix time) in Stata
Date
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:58:31 +0100
Stata's date and time functions were revised in Stata 10. One
consequence is that "mdy" only works as an argument to -date()- under
version control:
. di date("1/1/1970","mdy")
.
. version 9: di date("1/1/1970","mdy")
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If your data are in seconds, see for one solution
http://statabytes.andrewdyck.com/blog/working-with-unix-timestamps-in-stata/
(Stata users can't write Stata functions, only Stata commands and Mata
functions.)
Nick
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Michael Costello
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have quite a bit of date information that is stored in epoch time
> (aka Unix time). I need to convert it to something readable. I found
> this post (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-09/msg00518.html)
> in the archives, but the code doesn't seem to run (perhaps because of
> differences in Stata since 2002). Does anyone know an easy method, or
> has anyone written a function to do these conversions?
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