I was remiss in my posts in this thread not to point to an excellent  
discussion on handling NSDates in Cocoa. This is slanted toward  
iPhone developers, but everything discussed has direct application  
for FBers.

http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/05/simple-methods-for-date-formatting- 
and.html

The nice thing about Cocoa is that complicated code that would take  
multiple functions and many lines in Carbon can be often be reduced  
to a few lines of Objective-C. The challenge for FBers is to be able  
to input to, and access out the results of the Cocoa code.

Ken