Brief Description The answer from Brian Ramsay is more convenient if you only want to convert to minutes. If you want Cocoa API do it for you and convert your NSTimeInterval not only to minutes but also to days, months, week, etc,... I think this is a more generic approach Use NSCalendar method: (NSDateComponents *)components:(NSUInteger)unitFlags fromDate:(NSDate *)startingDate toDate:(NSDate *)r
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