On 5 Jan 2010, at 19:41, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

> 
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Chris Ridd wrote:
> 
>> However Core Data models "dates" using NSDate. If you needed to model dates 
>> without times in Core Data (and be able to sort/filter on them) what would 
>> you do?
> 
> Normalize the time component of the date.

Nod, except that this normalization is exactly what was being recommended 
*against* by Quincey :-)

> One idea is to use 12 PM GMT as a constant time, since then the date will be 
> the same date everywhere in the world - except in New Zealand, Fiji, 
> Kiribati, Samoa, & other states in the GMT+12/13 neighborhood, so you'll have 
> to translate for them. iCal does this when synchronizing calendar dates.

Cheers,

Chris
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