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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I succeeded in building my very first
external. Not without much frustration and help - many thanks
to:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Frank B</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thomas G</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ben S</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rua M</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would very much appreciate some feedback - cuz I
think I'm king of the world right now and i likely need some 'humble pie'.
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>You can download the external and try it out from
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href="http://www.davesabine.com/media/puredata/epochtime.zip">http://www.davesabine.com/media/puredata/epochtime.zip</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My own thoughts:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Object is good because: It works reliably and may
prove useful as a seed for [random] or to calculate the difference between two
dates.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Object is bad because:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. mktime() for Jan 1 1974 (which is supposed to be
EPOCH!) actually produces a few million seconds. I would expect it to be
"0" (genesis, the big bang, the moment of creation) but it actually returns a
few million seconds - making me think that "epoch" is actually somewhere around
Dec 1, 1969.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. This object doesn't take into account
Daylight Savings Time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. While this object may prove useful for special
tasks, it doesn't quite accomplish my inital goal...so I think I'll begin
building another external called "difftime" which will hopefully render the
results I'm looking for.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps some suggestions would help me build the
second version! (Or with enough thumbs down, I'll abandon the
object).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dave S</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>p.s.: If somebody would like to tell me how to list
this external at the Pure Data Base, the new CVS, or pure-data.org, I'd be happy
to do that.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>