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Re: st: duplicated datetime variable differs from original datetime variable it was derived from
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Milena Przheska <[email protected]>
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Re: st: duplicated datetime variable differs from original datetime variable it was derived from
Date
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:40:09 +0100
That solved the problem. Thank you for your help.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Phil Clayton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dates with times need to be stored in double precision. Try:
> gen double time1=time
>
> See -help datetime-
>
> Phil
>
> On 12 Nov 2013, at 10:25 pm, Milena Przheska <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Statalist members,
>>
>> When duplicating a time variable by typing
>>
>> gen time1 =time
>>
>> the new variable time1 is off by several seconds from the variable time, so
>>
>> time
>> 06jun2012 22:44:51
>> 06jun2012 22:44:54
>> 06jun2012 22:44:56
>> 07jun2012 01:39:58
>> 07jun2012 01:40:05
>> 07jun2012 01:40:45
>> 07jun2012 03:09:48
>> 07jun2012 03:09:48
>> 07jun2012 03:11:06
>>
>> becomes
>>
>> time1
>> 06jun2012 22:45:17
>> 06jun2012 22:45:17
>> 06jun2012 22:45:17
>> 07jun2012 01:40:03
>> 07jun2012 01:40:03
>> 07jun2012 01:40:03
>> 07jun2012 03:09:37
>> 07jun2012 03:09:37
>> 07jun2012 03:11:48
>>
>>
>> I would appreciate your help with resolving this problem.
>>
>> Thank you all,
>> Milena
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