Time Lapsed since beginning of bar

I am trying to get the time lapsed since the beginning of the bar. It is a 5 min chart, and I would like to get the lapse time in seconds.

I wrote the code below, but it does not compile. Any help is appreciated.


variables:
starttime(0),
endtime(0),
timelapsed(0),
intrabarpersist barstart(0);

if barstart <> currentbar then begin
barstart = currentbar ;
starttime = TimeToSeconds(time);
end;

endtime=TimeToSeconds(time);

timelapsed = endtime - starttime ;

damageboy has posted one solution here

http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=2488

thanks for the heads up

thanks to damageboy