Just use NSDate, right? The obvious choice for handling dates in iOS and OS X apps is NSDate. It’s obvious, right? It’s got “date” right in its name, doesn’t it?
And that’s the thing about NSDate. It’s mis-named. It almost says so right in the docs:
NSDate objects encapsulate a single point in time, independent of any particular calendrical system or time zone.
A single point in time? I don’t know about you but I think of “date” as meaning more like