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Re: NSDateFormatter question...

Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter question...
From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:02:30 -0500
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On Sep 14, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Alec Carlson wrote:

Can anyone explain to me why “today” ends at 12:00 noon instead of 23:59:59 when the following code is executed:
    NSDateFormatter   * theFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]
initWithDateFormat:@"%c" allowNaturalLanguage:YES];
    NSDate                 * nsDate = [theFormatter
dateFromString:@"today"];
    NSLog(@"%@", nsDate);
This creates a date/time of: 2005-09-14 12:00:00 –0500 instead of: 2005-09-14 23:59:59 –0500 or 2005-09-14 11:59:59 PM –0500. Seems weird that “today” would not translate to the whole day – including the PM part of the day...

Considering that the date object only represents a discrete point in time, to me it makes sense that a date of "today" would set the time data to be the midpoint of that day.

If you really need the beginning or end time of the day, there are ways to obtain that.

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