SPSS Date Variables - Beginners Tutorial & Examples

DESCRIPTION:
For dealing with date variables in SPSS, you could go to Transform - Date & Time Wizard.
However, you can get the job done way better and faster with some very simple date functions such as
-DATEDIFF for computing the time between 2 dates,
-DATESUM for adding time (days, hours, ...) to dates,
-XDATE for extracting time components (years, week days, ...) from dates &
-DATE.DMY for creating dates from day, month & year.
In this SPSS beginners video, you'll learn how to run all main date calculations the right way.
I'll also cover some little known tricks such as
-setting missing values for date variables and
-adding the current date & time to your dataset.
Hope it helps!
TIMESTAMPS:
01:09 overview main SPSS date functions
03:52 example 1a - compute (truncated) age with DATEDIFF
06:16 example 1b - compute (exact) age with DATEDIFF
07:14 example 2a - extract weekday with XDATE
10:12 example 2b - extract year, month, day with XDATE
11:50 warning - XDATE.WEEK returns nonsensical week numbers
12:12 example 3 - create date variable from day, month, year with DATE.DMY
14:15 example 4 - add days to date with DATESUM
16:44 example 5 - comparing dates in SPSS
19:12 how are dates stored in SPSS?
22:25 common date formats in SPSS
24:56 quick tip 1 - missing values for date variables
28:05 quick tip 2 - add current date to dataset
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