Get actual date into seconds on iOS SDK

I'm making an app where I need to get the actual date ([NSDate date开发者_JAVA技巧]) into seconds since 1970 (timeIntervalSince1970). But I don't manage to get it working, how should it be done?

NSTimeInterval seconds = [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970]

Note that NSTimeInterval is actually a double value, not an object.

double intrval=[[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970];

-(NSDate*)dateFromDouble:(double) intrval{
    return [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:intrval];  
}