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Re: st: best practice for dates and times
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Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
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Re: st: best practice for dates and times
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Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:22:43 -0800
Junlin, I've found that the conversion after import is quite simple and reliable, so your approach sound good.
Michael
On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Liao, Junlin wrote:
> I find that transfer data with dates and times is rather complicated with Stata. Lately I found that importing dates and times in text format and then converting with Stata functions would be the simplest approach. I'd like to hear if others have better solutions.
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> Thanks,
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> Junlin
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