Is there an easy way to init an NSDate
with the current UTC date/time?
[NSDate date];
You may want to create a category that does something like this:
-(NSString *)getUTCFormateDate:(NSDate *)localDate
{
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSTimeZone *timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:timeZone];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:localDate];
[dateFormatter release];
return dateString;
}