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Moshe
Moshe

Reputation: 58097

What unit of time does timeIntervalSinceDate return?

What unit of time does timeIntervalSinceDate return? Is it seconds, milliseconds or something else?

The documentation says that it returns an NSTimeInterval, but what unit of time is that value?

Upvotes: 76

Views: 38965

Answers (2)

esqew
esqew

Reputation: 44712

It returns the number of seconds, as an NSTimeInterval value.

From this documentation page:

NSTimeInterval is always specified in seconds; it yields sub-millisecond precision over a range of 10,000 years.

Upvotes: 98

GarlicFries
GarlicFries

Reputation: 8323

Well the NSDate docs show the function prototype as:

- (NSTimeInterval)timeIntervalSinceDate:(NSDate *)anotherDate

And the Foundation Data Types doc states:

NSTimeInterval is always specified in seconds; it yields sub-millisecond precision over a range of 10,000 years.

Upvotes: 7

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