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st: Importing data/time variables from Excel
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Joe Canner <[email protected]>
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st: Importing data/time variables from Excel
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:51:52 +0000
Dear Stata community,
I have a spreadsheet which has a column of date/time values. However, because it is formatted to display just the date, when I import it into Stata (12.1) sometimes it re-formats it as a date and throws away the time data. This doesn't happen consistently for some reason.
Is there any way to force Stata to recognize this column as a date/time and override its natural whims? I have a number of spreadsheets like this and will probably have to re-import new versions from time to time, so I would rather not go into each spreadsheet before every import and re-format the column.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Joe Canner
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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