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Re: st: Coverting variable to date and time
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Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Coverting variable to date and time
Date
Fri, 24 May 2013 19:49:15 +1000
You can convert the string to a Stata "datetime" date using the clock() function:
gen double datetime=clock(yourstring, "YMDhms")
Then you can extract the date using the dofc() function, the hour using the hh() function, minutes mm() and seconds ss().
See -help datetime-.
Phil
On 24/05/2013, at 7:35 PM, Neophytos Stylianou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Stata 12.1 and I have a variable containing date and time.
>
> The problem is that it is a string variable and it contains both date and time within it.
>
> I want to split them into date variable and time variable but also have the opportunity to have a date time combined variable.
>
> Example of what the variable contains :
>
> 2005-02-19 09:38:00.000
> 2005-02-19 09:46:00.000
>
> I want a variable of date i.e 19/02/2005 and time 09:38:00
>
> I would do it manually if it was a small number of records but there are more than 1.3million rows
>
> I know that I can combine the date and time variables which will be created using
> gen double datetime = date*24*60*60*1000 + time
> format datetime %tcNN/DD/CCYY_HH:MM:SS
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Neo
>
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