Stripping the time out of an NSDate

cocoa, nscalendar, nsdate, nsdatecomponents

Solution

You are getting midnight BST (which is GMT+1 hour), which is the same as 23:00 GMT (+0000).

[NSDate date] will return a date in the current timezone, so your date is in BST. Have you also tried setting the timezone to GMT:

[components setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"]];

Problem

I have seen many version of the following code to remove the time element from an NSDate. ``` NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar]; NSDate *now = [NSDate date]; unsigned int intFlags = NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit; NSDateComponents *components = [cal components:intFlags fromDate:now]; NSDate *today = [cal dateFromComponents:components]; ``` Trouble is it does not work as expected. I am currently in British summertime (BST). If I run this code now, now=@"2012-07-07 19:24:06 +0000" today=@"2012-07-06 23:00:00 +0000" What I want to see is today=@"2012-07-07 00:00:00 +0000" I can only guess that it has something to do with daylight saving. Any ideas?

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