Re: Combining date and time of birth

[Jon Peck]

If these are true SPSS date and time variables, you can just add them.

data list list /bdate(ADATE) btime(TIME).
begin data.
11/17/2000 10:00
1/1/2019 15:30


compute dt = bdate + btime.
format dt (datetime20).
list.

 
     bdate    btime                   dt
 
11/17/2000 10:00:00 17-NOV-2000 10:00:00
01/01/2019 15:30:00 01-JAN-2019 15:30:00 

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 7:59 AM Sarasum <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello!

I have two variabels with information I need to combine.

Date of birth (dd-mmm-yyyy) and time of birth (hh:mm). How can I combine
these into one variable containing both date and time of birth in spss?

The objective is to be able to calculate the time interval in hours between
time of arrival to the hospital and time of birth...

Much grateful for help.
Sara



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