Retrieve Core Data Entities in Order of Insertion

Posted by Andy Shea on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Andy Shea
Published on 2010-04-25T10:46:31Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 10:53 UTC
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Is there an internal ID variable or timestamp I can use in a NSSortDescriptor to retrieve Core Data entities in the order they were inserted?

I would rather not have to create such properties if there is a cleaner way, though will obviously do so if there are no other alternatives.

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