What's the optimum way of storing an NSDate in NSUserDefaults?

Question

There\'s two ways of storing an NSDate in NSUserDefaults that I\'ve come across.

Option 1 - setObject:forKey:

// Set
NSDate *myDate = [NSDate date]         


        

Answer 1

Use NSUserDefaults; dates are stored in Zulu time, so there are no time zone issues to worry about. Store it in your time zone, pull it out in another time zone, you'll be fine, the system handles the conversion (no date formatter to worry about).