How does one subtract hours from an NSDate?

Question

I would like to subtract 4 hours from a date. I read the date string into an NSDate object use the following code:

NSDateFormatter * dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"];
NSDate * mydate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:[dict objectForKey:@"published"]];

What do I do next?

Answer 1

NSDate *newDate = [theDate dateByAddingTimeInterval:-3600*4];

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NSDate *newDate = [[[NSDate alloc] initWithTimeInterval:-3600*4
                                              sinceDate:theDate]] autorelease];

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