Objective-C and sqlite's DATETIME type

Question

I have a sqlite3 table that I\'m trying to map to an object in objective-C. One attribute of the table is \'completed_at\' which is stored as a DATETIME.

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Answer 1

I have zero experience with Objective-C, but I found Apple's NSDate Class Reference with a google search. With the information provided on the linked page you should be able to figure out how to manipulate 32-bit epoch times in Objective-C, and this would work well in SQLite. I would probably create the completed_at column as type INTEGER for 32-bit times.

SQLite really prefers Julian dates, which are floats. I haven't found any documentation explaining how one might coerce the NSDate class into working with Julians.

timeIntervalSince1970 looks very interesting.