returns a date an hour in the future

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Maybe you are confusing the point in time (ie the NSDate object) and the point in time at your location (ie your local time).

If you print a NSDate (like NSLog(@"%@", [NSDate date]); which invokes [date description]) the date representation that is printed is in UTC timezone (+0000) (at least it is on my computer).
So as long as you don’t live in an area that uses UTC the date printed by [date description]; is always “wrong”. But wrong only means that its representation is not the same representation as the clock in your office. The date (as in point in time) is still correct.

When you use localizedStringFromDate:dateStyle:timeStyle: you are printing the date in your local timezone. 

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSLog(@"%@", date);
NSLog(@"%@", [NSDateFormatter localizedStringFromDate:date dateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle timeStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle]);

at my computer this results in: 

2011-02-12 08:32:10.658 x[75647:207] Date: 2011-02-12 07:32:10 +0000
2011-02-12 08:32:10.661 x[75647:207] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011 8:32:10 AM Central European Time

the printed strings are different, but the NSDate object is still the same. That’s why you have to use NSDateFormatters when you show a date to the user. Because the same point in time looks different on different places of the world.

But there are only three places where an UTC formatted date would be one hour in the future, so if you don’t live in greenland, cape verde or on the azores I might be totally wrong and there is something wrong with your NSDate objects.

Edit: Out of curiosity I read the documentation about [date description] again. And it says

A string representation of the
receiver in the international format
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ±HHMM, where ±HHMM
represents the time zone offset in
hours and minutes from GMT (for
example, “2001-03-24 10:45:32 +0600”).

So I don’t know why the date at my computer is printed in GMT timezone. It might be in another timezone at your computer.
But still, it’s only the representation, the date is still the same.

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