I have a query regarding transforming a date read into Stata as a string
variable which I need to translate into a numeric variable (and then store
in Stata's %tc format). I'd be grateful if anyone has any idea what I'm
doing wrong. It falls over when I use the -clock- function. But after studying
the help pages am still not sure why! The error message is r(133) "Unknown
function clock()".
My code:
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clear
set obs 1
ge str23 stringdate = "2001-02-31 11:12:13.000"
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ge double mydate = clock(stringdate, "YMD hms") Format mydate %tc
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The line generating mydate produces the error message.
I have read Stata's help page for dates and times at:
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dates_and_times#description
And off this page is a page for help with "String to numberic translation
functions":
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dates_and_times#str2num
Which contains an example identical to mine above.
I am using Intercooled Stata v9.2.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
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