Newbie question about setting the date of a UIDatePicker

Question

I created a UIDatePicker in my view and called it targetDate.
If I don't set targetDate's date property, the UIDatePicker shows up by default with a date of November 30, 0002.
So, when the view loads, I did this:
NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
targetDate.date = today;
(Note: in the above expression, the square brackets around "NSDate date" don't show up and are turning the expression into a link instead.)
After doing that, when the view loads the UIDatePicker object initially shows the correct month and date, but it shows 0001 as the year.
So my question is, why doesn't this set the correct year?
In the Interface Builder the UIDatePicker's minimum and maximum dates are set from 1/1/0001 to 1/1/4001. I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem. I assumed that was just setting the allowed range for picking.
I don't know what the "Date" setting field in the IB above the minimum date field is supposed to be for either.
Anyway, am I not setting the date property correctly?
Thanks,
doug
Message was edited by: Doug Lerner2

Answer 1

Instead of setting the .date property when the view loads I ended setting it when the UIDatePicker is displayed and the date setting works ok now.
By the by, if you have very early dates set, like January 1, 0001, the dates of the months are off by a few days. I guess that has to do with the whatever happened like 1000 years ago when they made a big adjustment to the calendars.
doug