NSDate not returning correct date

Question

I am printing NSDate like this:

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSString *stringDate = [data description];

Right now, it's July 1, 2011 11:43 pm. My iPod even says that on the top bar. But stringDate prints out: 2011-07-02 03:43:46 +0000

This is obviously wrong. I have used NSDate millions of times but never had this problem. What could be wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

Your region's time offset is -04:00? NSDate will automatically adjust the time offset when displaying the date. Try,

NSString *str = [date descriptionWithLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];

It will show you the correct date.

Answer 2

Are you in the GMT -4 time zone? The result that it is giving you would be correct in that case, as 2011-07-02 03:43:46 +0000 is 2011-07-01 11:43:46 -4000.