Question

I am having troubles converting a short Zulu date format to a NSDate Object. I have found some answers for converting Zulu strings but mine looks like:

20111210T1000

And based on my researches, I am trying to do:

NSDateFormatter *f = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[f setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss Z"];
NSDate *date = [f dateFromString:[str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"Z" withString:@" +0000"]];
[f release];

I’ve tried many ways but my date is still nil…

How should I set my NSDateFormatter?

Answer 1

Here is a quick fix, in your date string you miss the timezone in the format, you should append (Paris one here) to your string and it should work. Also the format was wrong.

 NSDateFormatter* df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
 [df setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMdd'T'SSSZ"];
 NSString* str = @"20111210T1000-0100";   // NOTE -0100, GMT +1 Paris zone
 NSDate* date = [df dateFromString:str];
 NSLog(@"%@", date);