Question

I have a code that was working until iOS 4.3.5, now in iOS 5 it’s not working:

//Example of date I'm using: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:57:55 BRST

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss vvvv"];
[formatter setLocale:[[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"] autorelease]];
NSString *dateString = [TBXML textForElement:[TBXML childElementNamed:@"pubDate" parentElement:XML]];
NSDate *data = [formatter dateFromString:dateString];
[formatter release];

Now, data is coming (null). Does anybody know what I did wrong?

Regards!

EDIT:

I was looking in the file NSDateFormatter.h and I found:

// - (id)init; // designated initializer

init is commented, so I am not allowed to use [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] right? Is there any other way to create ah instance of NSDateFormatter ?

Answer 1

You can init the NSDateFormatter with initWithDateFormat:allowNaturalLanguage:

NSDateFormat Class Reference

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NSDateFormatter's init method is deprecated?

Hope that helps?