We wrote earlier about how to add time stamps (current date and/or time) to your Stata figures, e.g. to keep track of work in progress results. A similar strategy can be used when storing log-files, which are typically overwritten with a more recent version of the same log.
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Add date, month or year to your LaTeX document
Including the current date in your LaTeX document is quite straightforward. Simply put \today whereever you want the current timestamp (i.e. the date at the time of compiling the document), and you get the current date:
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Especially in the early stages of a research project it might be good to “time stamp” figure so that you can later figure out when you created a certain figure. Of course you could just check the date in the explorer / finder, but you can also simply add a note to the figure with time and date of its creation:
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In my dataset, I have information on a number of workers for each week. The raw data I receive (no Stata format) contains information on the year and the week (1, 2, …, 52). Here, a week is defined as the first week of a year which has at least 4 days in January. E.g., the week 1/2009 starts already on December 29, 2008. A result of that is that for some years, a year has 53 calendar weeks. Continue reading “Weekly data: calendar week vs. Stata weeks”