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 need to do something along the lines of the following:

NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components = [calendar components:NSHourCalendarUnit fromDate:now];
NSLog(@"%d", [components hour]);

And so on.