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From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: RE: statalist-digest V4 #4311 |
Date | Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:16:07 +0200 |
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Mark McCann <mark.mccann@qub.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm at a loss as to what's happening here. I have checked the help files and statalist, but I just can't make sense of this. My time variable appears to be reading seconds incorrectly, this happened before I added a dummy ":00" seconds onto the string variable, and after (as below). Any ideas on what is happening? I'm using Stata 11 on Windows > > > gen space=" " > gen seconds=":00" > egen time1=concat(date space time seconds) > gen time2=clock(time1,"DMYhms") > format time2 %tc replace 4th line to: gen double time2 = clock(time1, "DMYhms") Hope this helps, Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/