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SPSS programming steps for converting variables that are Julian calendar dates (successive integers starting a couple of hundred years ago) to Christian calendar date values in a month-day-year format, and vice fversa.

  • 1.  SPSS programming steps for converting variables that are Julian calendar dates (successive integers starting a couple of hundred years ago) to Christian calendar date values in a month-day-year format, and vice fversa.

    Posted Thu April 29, 2021 06:18 AM

    SPSS programming steps for converting variables that are Julian calendar dates (successive integers starting a couple of hundred years ago) to Christian calendar date values in a month-day-year format, and vice fversa.






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  • 2.  RE: SPSS programming steps for converting variables that are Julian calendar dates (successive integers starting a couple of hundred years ago) to Christian calendar date values in a month-day-year format, and vice fversa.

    Posted Thu April 29, 2021 06:19 AM

    SPSS programming steps for converting variables that are Julian calendar dates (successive integers starting a couple of hundred years ago) to Christian calendar date values in a month-day-year format, and vice versa.






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  • 3.  RE: SPSS programming steps for converting variables that are Julian calendar dates (successive integers starting a couple of hundred years ago) to Christian calendar date values in a month-day-year format, and vice fversa.

    Posted Thu April 29, 2021 01:10 PM

    Numerically, dates in SPSS are the

    number of seconds since October 14, 1582. Adjust the base for your Julian dates multiplied by the number of seconds in a day (86,400) and you will have an SPSS date value. Then assign the desired date format, e.g.,

    format datevar (edate 10).






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