Hello all,

I've finished my second external! This external was actually my initial goal...but I had a lot of learning to do before I could successfully write the code and compile it.

Many thanks to Thomas G for pointing me towards the "proxy" object. and of course thanks to Iohannes Zmoelnig for writing the "externals-HOWTO". and to Miller for his wisdom.

The object is available here: http://www.davesabine.com/media/puredata/difftime.zip source file and a 'help' file is included.

difftime compares two dates and returns the number of seconds between them. (Emulating the c/c++ function "difftime()") With a little ingenuity it could also be used to emulate "datediff()" from Visual Basic which is capable of breaking down the result into # of days, #of weeks, #of months, etc.

It operates similar to PD's basic match objects in terms of its inlets and outlet. Dates can be sent to the object in 'lists' which represent yyyy mm dd hour min sec. Alternatively, the object accepts the "now" command if you want to compare a date to the current date/time.

Regards, Dave S