Question

I am getting date in string formate ad “2012-04-11T07:51:10+0000” & I want to convert it to NSDate as “11-04-2012”. I dont understand how to use “setDateFormat” for this.

This is what I am doing–
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@”yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss’+’zzzz”];

Please help.

And whatever NSDate I will get I again want to convert to string ie. only 11-04-2012.
I have searched on ggl. But no satisfactory result 🙁

please help.

Answer 1

Here is how to parse the string to generate a date:

NSString *dateString = @"2012-04-11T07:51:10+0000";
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.dateFormat = @"yyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ";
NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:dateString];
NSLog(@"Date: %@", date);

Now you can generate a new string representation of the date as follows:

formatter.dateFormat = @"dd-MM-yyyy";
NSString *newDateString = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(@"New string: %@", newDateString);
// 11-04-2012

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The problem with the dateFormat you were using is that you don’t have to escape all the symbols such as 'MM' and that zzzz is not the correct symbol to parse the timezone of type +0000.

Have a look at this documentation for more information.