Question

I am getting a time/duration from a .NET web service in this format: PT12H30M

How can this be handled?

Answer 1

When you define the format string for parsing a date you use the UTS #35 Date Format Patterns to define what the incoming data looks like. PT looks like a legitimate timezone abbreviation. You will want to fiddle with this depending on whether the minutes and hours are zero-padded or not.

NSString *dateString = @"PT12H30M";
dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"ZZhh'H'mm'M'"];
NSDate date = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:dateString];