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RE: st: best practice for dates and times
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
RE: st: best practice for dates and times
Date
Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:00:07 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Mon, 21/2/11, Liao, Junlin wrote:
> The float data type will misrepresent the times
> for certain values.
A complete list of recomended storage types for
different types of time variables is given in
-help dates_and_times-, section
"Recommended storage types for %t variables".
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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