Question

Hi at all I want to parsing a date from XML with this format:

2012/05/25 02:37

- (void) compareDate:(NSString *)dataUno secondaData:(NSString *) dataDue {

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat= [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"];

    NSDate *dt1 = [dateFormat dateFromString:dataUno];
    NSDate *dt2 = [dateFormat dateFromString:dataDue];

    NSLog(@"dt1: %@ dt2: %@", dt2, dt1);
}

but when I try to print the date I get a null value, where is the error?

kikko088

Answer 1

Your date formatter’s format string "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm" doesn’t match your date format. Actually, "2012/37/29 02:37" isn’t a date under any format, but I assume the 37 is a typo and that’s supposed to be the month.

Try this:

[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm"];