Creating and Initializing Date Objects

• + date
• + dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:
• + dateWithTimeInterval:sinceDate:
• + dateWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate:
• + dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:
• – init
• – initWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:
• – initWithTimeInterval:sinceDate:
• – initWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate:
• – initWithTimeIntervalSince1970:

Getting Temporal Boundaries

• + distantFuture
• + distantPast

Comparing Dates

• – isEqualToDate:
• – earlierDate:
• – laterDate:
• – compare:

Getting Time Intervals

• – timeIntervalSinceDate:
• – timeIntervalSinceNow
• + timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
• – timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
• – timeIntervalSince1970

Adding a Time Interval

• – dateByAddingTimeInterval:
• – addTimeInterval: Deprecated in iOS 4.0

Representing Dates as Strings

• – description
• – descriptionWithLocale: