Why does time returned by [NSDate date] differ from my current time?

hi all I am in India.And I have used the following code to get the c开发者_C百科urrent date.

[NSDate date]

it displaying the "2011-01-20 06:51:35 +0000" but actual time is "2011-01-20 12:21:35 +0000" .Please tell me how to get the current date.

Thanks in advance

You need to use Date Formatter for this purpose.Below is the sample code for that.

NSDate *testDate=[NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"MM DD YY hh:mm"];//You can set your required format here
NSString *dt = [formatter stringFromDate:testDate];
[formatter release];

NSString *strDateTaken=dt;

Cheers

What does “actual time” mean? The current time in your time zone? Considering the time values given I’d guess that the first one is GMT and you want IST (+5:30). (See Time zones on Wikipeda.) Depends on what you want to do with the date – if you just want a formatted date and time in your current time zone, Aditya’s answer should work.

To Find Current date and difference between current date and Given date...its working code

NSDate *testDate=[NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *formatterNew = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatterNew setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss "]; 
NSString *dt = [formatterNew stringFromDate:testDate];
NSString *strDateTaken=dt;
NSLog(@"Date=%@",strDateTaken);
[formatterNew release]; // This line can be removed if you are using ARC

NSDateFormatter *tempFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init]autorelease];
[tempFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"];
NSDate *toDate = [tempFormatter dateFromString:strDateTaken];
NSLog(@"Current Date ==%@",toDate);

NSDateFormatter *tempFormatter1 = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init]autorelease];
[tempFormatter1 setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"];
NSDate *startdate = [tempFormatter1 dateFromString:@"30-08-2011 16:25:00"];
NSLog(@"Last Date ==%@",startdate);

int i = [startdate timeIntervalSince1970];  
int j = [toDate timeIntervalSince1970];
double X = j-i;
int days=(int)((double)X/(3600.0*24.00));


NSLog(@" Difference :%d",days);