How do I get the current date in Cocoa

Question

I\'m getting started developing for the iPhone and as such I am looking at different tutorials online as well as trying some different things out myself. Currently, I\'m try

Answer 1

You have problems with iOS 4.2? Use this Code:

NSDate *currDate = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.YY HH:mm:ss"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:currDate];
NSLog(@"%@",dateString);

-->20.01.2011 10:36:02

Answer 2

Here's another way:

NSDate *now = [NSDate date];

//maybe not 100% approved, but it works in English.  You could localize if necessary
NSDate *midnight = [NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString:@"midnight tomorrow"]; 

//num of seconds between mid and now
NSTimeInterval timeInt = [midnight timeIntervalSinceDate:now];
int hours = (int) timeInt/3600;
int minutes = ((int) timeInt % 3600) / 60;
int seconds = (int) timeInt % 60;

You lose subsecond precision with the cast of the NSTimeInterval to an int, but that shouldn't matter.