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Stata has a rich variety of date and time functions making anything
that you want. See -help dates- for a full introduction. What is below
shows how to start. The help I have referenced shows how to go
further.
. set obs 1
obs was 0, now 1
. gen double datetime = clock("2005-02-19 09:38:00.000", "YMD hms")
. format datetime %tc
. l
+--------------------+
| datetime |
|--------------------|
1. | 19feb2005 09:38:00 |
+--------------------+
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com
On 24 May 2013 10:35, Neophytos Stylianou
<neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Stata 12.1 and I have a variable containing date and time.
>
> The problem is that it is a string variable and it contains both date and time within it.
>
> I want to split them into date variable and time variable but also have the opportunity to have a date time combined variable.
>
> Example of what the variable contains :
>
> 2005-02-19 09:38:00.000
> 2005-02-19 09:46:00.000
>
> I want a variable of date i.e 19/02/2005 and time 09:38:00
>
> I would do it manually if it was a small number of records but there are more than 1.3million rows
>
> I know that I can combine the date and time variables which will be created using
> gen double datetime = date*24*60*60*1000 + time
> format datetime %tcNN/DD/CCYY_HH:MM:SS
>
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