Storing NSDate with system time zone in Core Data

Question

When I store a date in CoreData as [NSDate date], it is saved -5:30 difference. In core data I used attribute type as date.

How to store NSdate with timeZone?

Update: Here is the code I am using:

To store the date:

database = (DataBase*) [fetchResults objectAtIndex:indexVal]; 
[database setDate:[NSDate date]]; 
NSError error = nil; 
[managedObjectContext save:&error]

To retrieve the date:

DataBase *newDataBase = (DataBase) [fetchResults objectAtIndex:i]; 
NSDate *RetrivedDate = [newDataBase Date]; 
NSLog(@"Retrived Date :",RetrivedDate");

Before storing I log it. It shows current date and time. After storing I immediately fetched the date . but it showed 1 day delayed date..

jrturton jrturton · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-14T05:56:07

NSDate doesn't have a time zone. It stores dates as a number of seconds since a reference date in GMT.

The time zone is applied when you format the date for display using NSDateFormatter. This will pick up the device time zone by default.

Storing NSDate with system time zone in Core Data

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