How Is Time Represented in STATISTICA Datafiles?
Time values of variables are stored as (optional) decimal values representing the fraction of the day since midnight; for example, 6:00 A.M. is stored as 0.25. Time values stored in this manner can be used in subsequent analyses and transformed using arithmetic operations; at the same time, they can be displayed as times in reports or graphs (e.g., used to label scale values). STATISTICA formats the display of time values according to the current settings of the Windows Control Panel. See the previous topic (How Are Dates Represented in STATISTICA Datafiles) for a discussion of the Auto Format Cells and the Date Operations dialogs. Refer to the on-line Electronic Manual (press the F1 key or click the Help button in the Date Operations dialog) for examples of creating time variables from numeric variables and splitting time variables into numeric variables.
