Re: Default value for Date Atttribute in Core Data application

FROM : Bill Coleman
DATE : Sun Aug 13 02:21:48 2006

On Aug 10, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Lee Gillen wrote:

> I have a Core Data application that has a date attribute for one of
> the entities. I'd like to set the default value for this attribute to
> be the current date and time that the data was created. I found that I
> can use a default value of 'now' or 'today' and it will populate the
> attribute with the date the data was created, but not the time.


I couldn't do this with a default value -- ran into the same problem, 
"TODAY" produces a time of 12 noon.

What I did was set the time to [NSDate date] in code after creating 
the object.

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