Quite so. There is a fuller statement on
time of day stuff at
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-01/msg00592.html
This looks as if it might be rather dated, but my
guess is that not much has been produced since.
Nick
[email protected]
Svend Juul
> Kelly Johnson wrote:
> ---
> Specifically, can I use the mm/dd/yy hh:mm format? (e.g.
> 04/04/04 09:15
> 04/04/04 09:15
> 04/04/04 09:16
> ---
>
> You should take a look at the -egenmore- functions. First:
> ssc install egenmore
>
> Here is an example using hms(), dhms(), and tod():
>
> clear
> set obs 1
> generate x = mdy(5,6,1999)
> generate date = x
> format date %d
> egen secs = hms(11 27 15)
> egen datetime = dhms(date 11 27 15)
> generate str sdate = string(date, "%d")
> egen stime = tod(secs)
> generate str sdatetime=sdate+" "+stime
> list , clean
>
> x date secs datetime sdate stime
> sdatetime
>
> 14370 06may1999 41235 14370.477 06may1999 11:27:15
> 06may1999 11:27:15
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