On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > > The documentation says about -[NSDate description]: "The representation is > not guaranteed to remain constant across different releases of the operating > system."
That really says it all right there. > NSLog(@"someDate: %@", someDate ); > Formerly did print the time in the local time zone. Which is a very sensible > thing to do. Yes, but it led to a lot of confusion. I.e. a lot of developers thought that NSDate contained timezone information; it does not. Under the covers, NSDate is nothing more than a number representing the seconds elapsed since the epoch--no timezone, no calendar system, no daylight savings, etc. -- Clark S. Cox III clarkc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
