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

NSDate* now and NSDate *now are the same thing: a pointer to an NSDate object.

You probably want to use descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale: rather than dateWithCalendarFormat: — the latter returns an NSCalendarDate, which the docs say is scheduled to be deprecated at some point.