Question

Getting the DatePicker to automatically goto NSUserDefault saved variable..
Any ideas?

I can select a date and time.
I can save it
I can quit the app then go back in and it reads the data back in correctly to a label..
then when i goto the DatePicker it defaults to Today’s date and time and automatically replaces the label and the string.

Answer 1

After you have created your created your UIDatePicker, you can set the date property.

// We assume you have a UIDatePicker object called 'datePicker' 
// and saved the date to the NSUserDefaults with the key 'pickedDate'.

NSUserDefaults *prefs = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSDate *pickedDate = [prefs getObjectForKey:@"pickedDate"];
[datepicker setDate:pickedDate animated:NO];

Afterwards, show the date picker as you would normally.