Tag Archives: Date Difference

Jul 28 2008
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Date Difference Reviewed in Mac ReviewCast #170

I noticed that a portion of my traffic today and yesterday has been coming from surfbits.com and macreviewcast.com, which happen to be the same site. The site is the homepage for the Mac Reviewcast, a weekly podcast that reviews new software for the Mac OS. Anyway, in episode #170 (iTunes link), my app Date Difference is mentioned. The review is very nice, and does a very good job summarizing the app. The review runs for about a minute, starting at 16:19 into the podcast.

This is (as far as I know) the first time anyone has reviewed Date Difference, and it certainly makes me feel special.

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Jul 22 2008
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Date Difference 1.1

Ok I finally found a Tiger machine to test Date Difference 1.1 on, and it seems to work fine, so I’m going to go ahead and release it! You can download Date Difference 1.1 at the same place as before, but now it should be better than before!

New features:

  • Fixed problems with compatibility in OS X 10.4 (ie not launching)
  • Fixed problems with time intervals being too long for the computer to keep track of (dates before sometime around 1940 returned a negative result)
  • Added option to use zeroes or not (meaning if there are 0 days in between the two dates, by default Date Difference no longer displays them). This can be changed in the preferences.
  • Added Sparkle for automatic updates
  • Changed the About window to be prettier

Known issues:

  • Preferences are not saved, you have to set them every time it launches.
  • If it’s giving you strange results the first time you launch it, try re-launching it before telling me!

Enjoy, and please tell me any bugs you encounter, in the comments section!

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Jul 22 2008
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Date Difference 1.1

Ok I finally found a Tiger machine to test Date Difference 1.1 on, and it seems to work fine, so I’m going to go ahead and release it! You can download Date Difference 1.1 at the same place as before, but now it should be better than before!

New features:

  • Fixed problems with compatibility in OS X 10.4 (ie not launching)
  • Fixed problems with time intervals being too long for the computer to keep track of (dates before sometime around 1940 returned a negative result)
  • Added option to use zeroes or not (meaning if there are 0 days in between the two dates, by default Date Difference no longer displays them). This can be changed in the preferences.
  • Added Sparkle for automatic updates
  • Changed the About window to be prettier

Known issues:

  • Preferences are not saved, you have to set them every time it launches.
  • If it’s giving you strange results the first time you launch it, try re-launching it before telling me!

Enjoy, and please tell me any bugs you encounter, in the comments section!

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Jul 21 2008
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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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Jul 21 2008
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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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Jul 18 2008
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Date Difference 1.0

Today I’m releasing version 1.0 of Date Difference, my first real app. It’s pretty simple, just give it two dates and/or times, and it tells you the length of time between them. It’s completely free, and you can get it here.

There are preferences for what units to enable or disable (days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds), and it compensates for the disabled units with the next largest enabled unit (for example, if the difference between the dates is 1 day and 2 hours, but you disable days, then it becomes 26 hours).

Stuff I’m planning on adding include support for weeks, months, and years, as well as possibly iCal integration, as well as porting it to the iPhone (as soon as I get my developer membership).

UPDATE: It seems that version 1.0 of Date Difference only works on OS X Leopard, see here for more information!

UPDATE: Version 1.1 released!

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