Recipe: Using the UIDatePicker

When you want to ask your user to enter date information, Apple supplies a tidy subclass of UIPickerView to handle several kinds of time entry. Figure 6-10 shows the four built-in styles of UIDatePickers that you can choose from. These range from selecting a time, to selecting a date, to selecting a combination of the two.

Figure 6-10. The iPhone offers four stock date picker models. Use the datePickerMode property to select the picker you want to use in your application.