I think you've just managed to get your variable names mixed up. You've used 'cocoaFinishTime' where you should have used 'cocoaTime'
last line should be: puts "Cocoa Later time: #{cocoaFinishTime}, interval: #{cocoaFinishTime.timeIntervalSinceDate(cocoaTime)} seconds" al On 13 Feb 2011, at 16:42, Jonathan Waddilove wrote: > Hi, I have been trying to use the NSDate initWithTimeInterval:sinceDate: > method to measure elapsed times. > > I know there has been some discussion about the mapping from Cocoa NSDate to > Ruby Time and back but I'm not sure if this is supposed to be working now? > > Here's a snip of code that calculates the interval using Ruby Time and then > NSDate > > #!/usr/local/bin/macruby > puts "Ruby Version: #{RUBY_VERSION}, MacRuby Version: #{MACRUBY_VERSION}" > > puts "\n\nRuby vesion - works as expected" > point_in_time = Time.now > puts "Ruby start time #{point_in_time}" > sleep(1) > later_time = Time.now > puts "Later time: #{later_time}, interval: #{later_time - point_in_time} > seconds" > > puts "\n\nFailing Cocoa version" > cocoaTime = NSDate.date > puts "Coca start time: #{cocoaTime}" > sleep(1) > cocoaFinishTime = NSDate.date > puts "Cocoa Later time: #{cocoaFinishTime}, interval: > #{cocoaFinishTime.timeIntervalSinceDate( cocoaFinishTime)} seconds" > > > And here's the output, note the NSDate sees zero intervale... > Ruby Version: 1.9.2, MacRuby Version: 0.8 > > > Ruby vesion - works as expected > Ruby start time 2011-02-13 16:33:23 +0000 > Later time: 2011-02-13 16:33:24 +0000, interval: 1.000694 seconds > > > Failing Cocoa version > Coca start time: 2011-02-13 16:33:24 +0000 > Cocoa Later time: 2011-02-13 16:33:25 +0000, interval: 0.0 seconds > > User error? or do I need to file a ticket? > > Best wishes and thanks, Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel