Question

I get the date from URL as GMT Format as follows.

Thu, 13 Nov 2010 05:15:01 GMT

I want to display that date as ordinary format.

I used the following code.

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"Thu, 13 Nov 2010 05:15:01"];
NSString *strDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];    //[NSDate date]];   // Ordinary Format
NSLog(@"Date is ........ %@", strDate);
[dateFormatter release];

This above code display the following output.

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Date is …….. Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:15:01

But when I put the date as follow the date “Thu, 13 Nov 2010 05:15:01 GMT” in NSDate then the out put is display as NULL.

How I will edit this

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss"]; 

to this date “Thu, 13 Nov 2010 05:15:01 GMT”

Answer 1

Can’t you simply remove the GMT substring from your string and call the dateFromString: on the resulting string?