Question

I developing an application, in which i found a ridiculous problem in type casting, I am not able to type cast NSDate to NSString.

NSDate *selected =[datePicker date];
NSString *stringTypeCast = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:selected
                                       encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

From ,above snippet datePicker is an object of UIDatePickerController.

Answer 1

One method would be:

NSString *dateString = [NSString stringWithString:[selected description]]

See the documentation.

Another would be:

NSString *dateString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", selected]

See the documentation.

A more appropriate method would be:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:selected];
[dateFormatter release];

This will automatically return the date in a string formatted to the user’s local date format. See the documentation.