time formats in summeries

[Jürg Artho]

Hi

In my date I have time-variables formatted as HH:MM (like 17:23 or
7:12). I like SPSS to always write summeries of these variables (i.e.
mean, stddev, etc. in frequencies, tables or output of statistical
tests) in the same format. Values of seconds greater than 30 should
round the minutes up, otherwise down. How can I do this?
Instead SPSS the summeries come in the form of HH:MM:SS,XXX (like
12:45:23,253).

Notice: I have the values of these time values also as minutes after
midnight in an other variable. I'm workings with SPSS 17.0.1 on a Mac
OS X.5.8

Thank you very much,

Juerg Artho



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[Bruce Weaver]

Jürg Artho wrote

Hi

In my date I have time-variables formatted as HH:MM (like 17:23 or
7:12). I like SPSS to always write summeries of these variables (i.e.
mean, stddev, etc. in frequencies, tables or output of statistical
tests) in the same format. Values of seconds greater than 30 should
round the minutes up, otherwise down. How can I do this?
Instead SPSS the summeries come in the form of HH:MM:SS,XXX (like
12:45:23,253).

Notice: I have the values of these time values also as minutes after
midnight in an other variable. I'm workings with SPSS 17.0.1 on a Mac
OS X.5.8

Thank you very much,

Juerg Artho

If you send the output to another dataset via OMS, you should be able to format it as desired, and then display it via REPORT or SUMMARIZE.