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Re: NSDateFormatter question...


  • Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter question...
  • From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:19:13 -0700


On Sep 15, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Alec Carlson wrote:

If the user enters “Today” I expect that :
dateFromString: would return either the current date/time as the best result
for the natural language translation of “today” or 11:59:59 PM as the whole
time range of today.

Since NSDates and NSCalendarDates are instants in time, and not time ranges, I'd say that choosing noon for "today" is a reasonable default. If you make it any other time, I can see equally strong arguments for making it 00:00:00GMT, or 12:59:59GMT+12, or the same values in the current time zone. Whatever they picked, it couldn't be what everybody wanted.


It sounds to me like you need a time range class for what you want to do. Another possibility is to have the user enter the date and time separately.


-jcr


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