Problems With Date Difference On Older OSes

As Hans Swinnen pointed out in the comments on the Date Difference post, Date Difference doesn’t seem to work all the time on older versions of OS X. I checked, and found that the reason for that is that I built it with the 10.5 SDK instead of an older one. I have version 1.1 ready, built with the 10.4 SDK (I’m working on getting a 10.3 SDK so I can make it as compatible as I said it was…) UPDATE: Ok, forget 10.3. Sorry, but it’s too much of a headache to get 10.3 support working. I got the SDK installed, but when I tried to build, it spat out no less than 12 errors at me, which I really don’t want to fix. If you’re using 10.3, sorry but you’re out of luck.

I have a 10.5 machine myself, as well as a 10.3 machine, but I find myself in need of a beta tester for 10.4, if anyone would be would like to help out.

UPDATE: It also seems that any two dates with more than 2147483647 seconds in between…doesn’t work. If you’re getting a negative result, it’s a bug. I’m working on fixing this, and I should have version 1.1 out tonight or tomorrow, with full backwards compatibility backwards compatibility to 10.4, support for greater time intervals, and one or two other features I’ve implemented since 1.0…

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  1. Roland Gustafson says:

    For 2 dates, 1 in 1933 (my bday) & 1 in 1937 (my wife’s bday) I get the same difference of 24,855.
    Am I doing something wrong??

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