How to get daylight saving settings programmatically in Xcode?

Question

Some countries are observing daylight saving, so I want to know if daylight setting is currently turned on or off (TRUE or FALSE) on the iDevice then I could correct the date on my app. is that possible?

Answer 1

Query the current NSCalendars timeZone to see if it is currently in daylight saving time.

BOOL dst = [[[NSCalendar currentCalendar] timeZone] isDaylightSavingTime];