Question

I am creating a NSDateCategory that formats a date but it always returns null, any ideas?

2011-06-05T16:55:00Z

+ (NSDate *)dateFromString:(NSString *)dateString
{
    NSLog(@"date string %@", dateString);

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd+hh:MM:ss"];
    NSDate *result = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
    [dateFormatter release];
    return result;
}

Answer 1

What a huge mission! Finally figured it out. The timezone needs to be set before you even worry about the formatting!

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"];
    [dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];
    NSDate *result = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
    [dateFormatter release];