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Re: st: duplicated datetime variable differs from original datetime variable it was derived from
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: duplicated datetime variable differs from original datetime variable it was derived from
Date
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:59:38 +0000
Thanks for the closure here. Closure of threads is really helpful!
To convert seconds to milliseconds, multiply by 1000 (don't add).
Presumably you meant that....
On -format-: You're touching here on a widespread fallacy. Changing
the format of a variable has precisely no effect on what is stored or
how it is stored. It does affect how something is displayed, but no
more. More detail at
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0067
Nick
[email protected]
On 12 November 2013 14:18, Milena Przheska
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist members,
>
> Thank you all for taking the time to help me with this situation, your
> suggestions, lead me to the source of the problem (which I am
> embarrassed to admit) was a clumsy typing mistake.
>
> The thing was, I created a double variable time1 following Phil's
> advice, but then, when breaking ties between the values of the
> variable, instead of adding 1000 (the equivalent of 1 sec) I have
> added 100, which I think created the problem with the type of the
> variable, which was formatted as %9.0g. So I reformatted the variable
> to %12.0g and added 1000 for breaking ties, and now the model is
> running without errors (so far).
>
> I am really sorry for the confusion and once I again thank you all for
> your help.
>
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