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To obtain the duration between dates, you must subtract the two time values involved. Since I'm dealing with a time, I use clock not date as the function. But you need to hold in mind constantly!


Impala Chev Impala 16. Therefore format the variable by following steps shown in Figures 9, 10 and 11. The UNK standard is adequate for many purposes, and in such cases, you will want to use %tc rather than the leap second-adjusted %tC encoding.


Stata Help - The parse option allows one to specify the separator. Then explore using DATETIME format specified as datetime20.


I haven't used STATA in long time and I haven't used date or time formatting in STATA Your question specifies neither sufficient detail about what you are starting with, nor what you want to get. The best way to give this information is to show a short example of your data, using the -dataex- command. If you are running Stata version 15. If you are running an earlier version, run -ssc install dataex- to get the command. Either way, run -help dataex- to get the simple instructions for using it. Then use it to show a brief example of your data. Just a handful of observations of just this variable will be enough. Then you need to say what you are trying to get. Or do you want a numeric monthly variable that displays that way? The distinction is that if you get a numeric monthly variable, if you calculate differences between them, the result will be the number of months between, whereas if you keep the numeric date-time variable and just change its appearance, when you subtract them you will get the number of milliseconds between. Similarly, if you keep the original numbers and just change the display, if you sort on the variable, the sorting will take into account the day, hour, minute, and second, whereas if you get a new monthly variable that contains only month and year information, sorting the data on this variable will only sort down to the level of month and year, and the ordering of days, hours, minutes, and seconds will be random. I'm going to guess that you have a string variable, and that you want to end up with an actual monthly variable. In fact, I doubt I have ever formatted a monthly date in quite this way before, and I did not recall how to do it. But the information is readily available by running -help datetime display formats-. You won't remember it all, but it will give you a good overview, with lots of worked examples, of how Stata manages dates and times. With a little practice you'll become good at doing the most frequent tasks in your workflow, and you will know where to turn for help when something out of the ordinary comes up. Dear Professor Schechter, First of all my apologies for the reckless and naive nature of my question. As part of my job interview, I was told to do a STATA test within a deadline 24 hours. Due to prolonged lack of use of STATA and no experience of working with dates and times using it, I could not rephrase or elaborate my question properly. Thank you for your code; dearly appreciated. I think I will be able to build on it and currently also looking at some examples.


Simple Formatting of Dates in Stata
Time series analysis works on all structures of data. For example, you may have the following data for birth dates from dates4. The full u to be returned will be the year that does not exceed the largest value of the specified topyear. To convert to a Stata date. Graphical representation of data helps understand it better. UNK stands for unknowing. Kate 12 Nov 1962 1046 4. If the dates in your jesus are mostly just months, consider storing them as dates in monthly format, where the underlying number is the number of months since January, 1960 rather than the number of days.