Question

I have an a string in UTC which i want to convert to NSDate. Somehow Im getting 30 minutes error

The string is
2012-04-10T00:00:00+05:30

the converted date is
2012-04-09 19:00:00 +0000

where as it should have been
2012-04-09 18:30:00 +0000

Im using this function to convert string to date

- (NSDate *)parseRFC3339Date{
    NSDateFormatter *rfc3339TimestampFormatterWithTimeZone = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [rfc3339TimestampFormatterWithTimeZone setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"];

    NSDate *theDate = nil;
    NSError *error = nil; 
    if (![rfc3339TimestampFormatterWithTimeZone getObjectValue:&theDate forString:self range:nil error:&error]) {
        NSLog(@"Date '%@' could not be parsed: %@", self, error);
    }

    [rfc3339TimestampFormatterWithTimeZone release];
    return theDate;
}

Answer 1

I ran into ISOdateFormatter here http://boredzo.org/iso8601unparser/ which works perfectly. Fund it better than modifying incoming date strings.