Re: Can you change SPSS time format to millisecond precision hh:mm:ss.sss (3 decimals instead of 2)?

Posted by Kirill Orlov on
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The most fine-grained time format is hh:mm:ss.ss, for what I know. But format is only display format, not the actual format. The actual value of any time variable is in seconds, and as such it can have any number of decimal digits. 601.0000, for example, will display as 00:10:01.00 (10 min 1 sec). But you can keep a value, say, 600.000001. It won't be displayed with such fine precision in a time format, but it it will be processed mathematically correctly.