[REQ] Compare time elapsed function

[RhysD]

Hi, I was just wondering if it was possible to include a compare time elapsed between dates as a function of the iOS object? It would be quite handy for creating timers in games that also need to be counting down even when the user has closed the app.

I've read up about it and it seems iOS has a class called NSDate that accomplishes this. http://developer.apple.com/library/m.../occ/cl/NSDate Probably more specifically the function timeIntervalSinceDate

I have also tried messing around with the Date/Time object that is already in MMF but it doesn't seem to have the functions that allow me to do this

[RhysD]

Guess not

[Anders]

I'm not sure how easy it is for you to work with for specific things like dates, but this can get UNIX timestamps:
http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=72647

A timestamp is an absolute measure in time (seconds) regardless of timezone and all that. To be used for anything useful it has to be converted into an actual date taking time zones, daylight saving, leap years and leap seconds into consideration.

[RhysD]

Oh! I didn't know this extension existed! Thanks for the heads up, i'll have a look at it

Edit: Blah, the link seems to be down anyone got a link handy for the iOS Unix Timestamp extension?