Message-ID: <x2y923r0nc.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2003-04-21T21:39:03Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Dates in read.spss
In-Reply-To: <20030421164607.34f50583.fharrell@virginia.edu>
Frank E Harrell Jr <fharrell at virginia.edu> writes:
> I am using read.spss in the foreign package to read an SPSS save file. For date variables I get huge values such as 11489990400. Does anyone know how to convert these values to R POSIXct date objects? Thanks in advance -Frank
Google is your friend. 3rd item from a search on spss+dates is
Statistical Packages at MIMAS: SPSS - date handling and the Year ...
Conclusions. SPSS stores dates internally as elapsed seconds since 00:00:00
on 14 October 1582, the first allowable date being 15 October 1582.
So who's born Nov.21 1946?
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