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st: add hours to date variable
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Caleb Southworth <[email protected]>
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st: add hours to date variable
Date
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:40:34 -0700 (PDT)
How can I add hours to a date variable? The hours are in decimal, such
that 13:45 = 13.75, etc.
. sum date hour
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
date | 735 18428 70.77298 18306 18550
hour | 735 12.99728 4.90426 6 19
. desc date hour
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
date float %td
hour byte %9.0g
Caleb Southworth
Associate Professor
Univ. of Oregon Sociology
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