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My system's date time is 26 May 22:55 but when i get date with [NSDate date] date time is 27 May 02:35

is it because of time zone ?

if yes how to solve this problem, that when i get date time, give me the date of my system and doesn't check time zone

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    How are you determining what the date object is? Are you just logging it? If so, it will likely print its time as UTC. So, yes, it's the time zone. The object has the correct date and time, it's just formatting it for display in Coordinated Universal Time. – Ken Thomases May 27 '12 at 06:46

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NSLocale* currentLocale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
[[NSDate date] descriptionWithLocale:currentLocale];

or use 

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; 
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
// or @"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a" if you prefer the time with AM/PM 
NSLog(@"%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]);
Alvaro
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    for the newbies (and to state the obvious)... it's NSLog, not NSlog in the last line... just a typo. – fazhool May 04 '13 at 12:00
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    Another little glitch. `@"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"` is not a nice date format, as it will give 0-12 time with no AM/PM suffix. A better one is `@"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a"` or `@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"` (for 0-24 time format). – Alvaro Mar 21 '16 at 17:18