RE: st: Coverting variable to date and time

[Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk>]

Thanks,

I found out that the data source uses the atomic clock time measurement therefore %tc would be fine.

Thanks Nick for the ampm command.

If I only have time as string variable is there a way of changing it to numeric?

For date you follow this command:
gen datevar=date(mydatevar, "YMD")
format date %d

but for time only?
Variable string 08:54:22

Neo

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 24 May 2013 12:02
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Coverting variable to date and time

The difference between %tc and %tC is documented. If it's not clear to you, then perhaps Google "leap seconds" or go beyond the help and look at the manual.

Your second -replace- won't work even in principle, and neither will work in practice.

gen ampm = cond(hh(datetime) < 12, "am", "pm")

might be one way of doing what I think you want.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 24 May 2013 11:45, Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Nick I have some more questions about time and date.
>
> I have read through the help file but it is not clear to me what is 
> the difference of %tc and %tC
>
> I have converted my data to YMDhms and it works
>
> Just for my practise I have also split the variable and converted the 
> two splits into date and time variable form strings
>
> I have entries for the same date but for morning as well as afternoon.
>
> How will I separate them in AM and PM?
>
> Is it something like:
> Gen time2= AM if time1 >=00:00:00 & time1<=12:00:00 Replace time2=PM 
> if time1>12:00:00 &time1<00:00:00
>
> Thnaks
> Neo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 24 May 2013 11:00
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Coverting variable to date and time
>
> That is no problem: it is in many ways the easiest and best way to import dates and/or  times into Stata.
>
> From your example, the -split- command is sufficient to split your variable into date and time strings: its default is to parse on spaces. See -help split-.  However, that is a red herring here.
>
> Stata has a rich variety of date and time functions making anything that you want. See -help dates- for a full introduction. What is below shows how to start. The help I have referenced shows how to go further.
>
> . set obs 1
> obs was 0, now 1
>
> . gen double datetime = clock("2005-02-19 09:38:00.000", "YMD hms")
>
> . format datetime %tc
>
> . l
>
>      +--------------------+
>      |           datetime |
>      |--------------------|
>   1. | 19feb2005 09:38:00 |
>      +--------------------+
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 24 May 2013 10:35, Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> 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
>>
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