Question

I am trying to parse the following NSString to an NSDate object:

“Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:06:00 +0100”

I know that I need the following lines of code to do this:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEE, MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss GMT"];
NSDate *dateObject = [dateFormat dateFromString:dateString]; 

But since dateObject always has the value nil, I assume that the expression inside the dateFormatter is not correct.
Does anyone have a suggestion for the right formatter statement?
Have already tried a lot of options, but none of them seems to work.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Your date format is wrong. it should be:

EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss GMT

for

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:06:00 +0100

You’ve accidentally exchanged “dd” and “MMM”.