Question

I have a string as follows:

2012-11-01

And I want to get a string representing the day from that. So this is how I approach it:

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy-mm-dd"];

NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString: @"2012-11-01"];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"EEE"];

NSString *string = [dateFormatter stringFromDate: date];

NSLog(@"%@", string);

And the output is:

Sun

When it really should be:

Thu

(If my calculations are correct!)

So what is the problem here? Is this an internal bug? Something wrong with my code?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Change your first date format string to:

[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy-MM-dd"]; // Capital MM for month

It should work then.