Question

I am having an issue with this message. It doesn’t seem to be able to convert to NSDate with my dateString

//dateString = @"2012-03-24 00:00:00 +0000"
+ (NSDate *)dateFromString:(NSString *)dateString {
    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]; //Invalid CFStringRef
    [dateFormatter release];
    return result;
}

Answer 1

If the time zone is specified with an offset +0000 in

NSString *dateString = @"2012-03-24 00:00:00 +0000";

you have to use:

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZ"]; 

Notice the double 'Z' and the removal of 'T'.

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