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Posted by cameryn smith
cameryn smith
2,828 Points

What is NSDate?

What is it and how and when would I use it. Where would it be important to use.

2 Answers

Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

NSDate is one of many objects Objective-C added to C to make Object-Oriented Programming more viable with C. NS actually stands for next step.

It's an object you can instantiate instances from ( NSDate *newDate ) towards dealing with dates in an object-oriented way. That is to have very formal ways of dealing with date-like things (methods) and extending the functionality of such class easier that's reproducible, testable, and predictable.

cameryn smith
cameryn smith
2,828 Points
cameryn smith
cameryn smith
2,828 Points

Thanks :) I got it now