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RE: st: FW: working with date & time variables when time refers to 01jan1960
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"Mendoza Aldana, Dr Jorge Antonio (WPRO)" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: FW: working with date & time variables when time refers to 01jan1960
Date
Mon, 7 May 2012 07:51:32 +0800
Dear Nick,
Thanks indeed, I will look at it more carefully.
Cheers,
Jorge
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 04 May 2012 14:12
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: FW: working with date & time variables when time refers to 01jan1960
This is prominently documented. You are expected to read the help!
Look at -help dates and times- and specifically the -clock()- function first.
Nick
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Mendoza Aldana, Dr Jorge Antonio
(WPRO) <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've received a dataset containing date (date1 and date2) and time (time1 and time2) variables; time1 is the time on date1 when an event happened; the same for time2 and date2.
> I need to compute the difference in minutes between date1_time1 to date2_time2. But, the format of time1 and time2 is e.g. "01Jan1960 10:20:00".
>
> the data looks like below,
>
> date1 time1 date2 time2
> 05may2010 01jan1960 10:00:00 05may2010 01jan1960 10:40:00
> 10may2011 01jan1960 23:50:00 11may2011 01jan1960 00:30:00
>
> So, I need to find a way to calculate the difference in minutes, which in the examples above is 40 minutes.
> I am using Stata 11 on Windows XP.
> I would appreciate ideas or links to references on how to solve this.
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