Persisting Dates to SQLite3 in an iPhone Application

Question

I am developing an iPhone application that persists data to a SQLite3 database.

For each row I persist I wish to include a \'created date\' and a \'last modified da

Answer 1

I typically use a double, something like:

sqlite3_bind_double(statement, index, [dateObject timeIntervalSince1970]);

where dateObject is an NSDate*. Then, when getting the data out of the DB, use

[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:doubleValueFromDatabase];