Question

I am an iOS newbie. I am looking to parse a date such as “2012-01-02T00:00:00-05:00” into a “YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss” format. So far I have done the following –

NSDateFormatter *inputFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[inputFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"UTC"]];
[inputFormatter setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
NSString *xExpDate = expirationDate;
NSString *tempExpDate = [xExpDate stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"T" withString:@" "];

I don’t quite get what to do after this. Any ideas?

Answer 1

  NSString *d = @"2012-01-02T00:00:00-0500";

  NSDateFormatter *inputFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  [inputFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"UTC"]];
  [inputFormatter setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZ"];
  NSDate *xExpDate = [inputFormatter dateFromString:d];
  NSLog(@"xExpDate: %@", xExpDate);

I think your datestring isnt correct, because the zone should havent any “:”