Get Set Games » NSDate http://getsetgames.com Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:11:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to Get the Current Time with NSDate http://getsetgames.com/2009/12/07/iphonedev-advent-tip-7-how-to-get-the-current-time-with-nsdate/ http://getsetgames.com/2009/12/07/iphonedev-advent-tip-7-how-to-get-the-current-time-with-nsdate/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:24:31 +0000 Derek van Vliet http://getsetgames.com/?p=871 In iPhone app development, timing is everything. Being able to take a pulse on the current time is crucial to many apps, especially games. Fortunately, this can be done with as much ease as a developer would expect using the NSDate class in the iPhone SDK. Today’s iPhone development advent tip is another one-line wonder:

NSTimeInterval time = [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970];

The timeIntervalSince1970 method returns the number of seconds since epoch. The return value type, NSTimeInterval, is a typedef of double, so you will have the necessary accuracy to get the current milliseconds from the first 3 digits after the decimal if need be.

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