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“31-Dec-2010 9:00AM to 1:00PM”
Take the above NSString for example, I need to convert it to 2 NSDates e.g.
31-Dec-2010 9:00AM AND 31-Dec-2010 1:00PM
Then compare it with the current Date to see if the current date falls within the given dates.
So 31-Dec-2010 10:00AM would fall within.
I’m wondering What are the best practices/tricks are with Objective C to do this elegantly?
As it turns out, NSDateFormatter has a dateFromString method, which does exactly what you want.
http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/12/how-to-convert-a-string-to-nsdate.html
The official documentation for NSDateFormatter:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDateFormatter_Class/Reference/Reference.html