Question

basically I am trying to store todays date but every time I try to do that NSDate returns nil to me

self.calendarView.selectedDate = [NSDate date];

I am new to objective-c so maybe I am doing something wrong here but it seems fairly straight forward.

Answer 1

[NSDate date] will return a correct date. Check if your self.calendarView is not nil at this point by doing:

NSLog(@"calendar: %@", self.calendarView);
NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSLog(@"now: %@", now);
self.calendarView.selectedDate = now;