date and times

[Khaleel Hussaini]

I seem to have forgotten how to do extract time between two dates. The data
I have is as follows

V1                                      V2
05-APR-2008 00:01:00        06-APR-2008 23:20:00
.                                        01-APR-2008 23:20:00
 01-APR-2008 23:20:00             .

I want to compute time difference in hours excluding the missing data. How
can I do this using SPSS 12 Syntax?

Best
SKH.

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[Dennis Deck]

One approach is:

COMPUTE Hours= CTIME.hours(Date1-Date2) .

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-----Original Message-----
From: Khaleel Hussaini [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: date and times

I seem to have forgotten how to do extract time between two dates. The
data I have is as follows

V1                                      V2
05-APR-2008 00:01:00        06-APR-2008 23:20:00
.                                        01-APR-2008 23:20:00
 01-APR-2008 23:20:00             .

I want to compute time difference in hours excluding the missing data.
How can I do this using SPSS 12 Syntax?

Best
SKH.

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