Converting NSDate to NSString causes unrecognized selector exception

Question

I am storing an NSDate in a plist as a string, and at launch I am trying to convert the string from the plist back to an NSDate to compare it later.

Answer 1

You are overcomplicating things. What makes you think that storing a NSDate object you'll get back a NSString?

Just do

NSDate * checkDate = [InfoDic objectForKey:@"LastDate"];

Also, don't confuse KVC methods with NSDictionary methods.

You want to use setObject:forKey: instead of setValue:forKey if you don't want to face bad surprises.

Answer 2

You are not storing a date as a string in the plist, you are storing it as a date.

The line:

[InfoDic setValue:[NSDate date] forKey:@"LastDate"];

stores the actual NSDate object.

All you need to get it back out is to call:

NSDate *theDay = InfoDic[@"LastDate"];

BTW - the line:

[InfoDic setValue:[NSDate date] forKey:@"LastDate"];

should be:

[InfoDic setObject:[NSDate date] forKey:@"LastDate"];

or just:

InfoDic[@"LastDate"] = [NSDate date];