Question

I have date in string in this formate “Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:05:00 +0000”. Now i want to convert date format to “TUE OCT 23 2012 1:05AM“. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

NSString *dateStr = @"Tue, 25 May 2010 12:53:58 +0000";

// Convert string to date object
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EE, d LLLL yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:dateStr]; 

But First

1. Create a NSDateFormatter to convert the date string to a NSDate
   object.
2. Create a second NSDateFormatter (or change the format string of the
   first) to convert the NSDate back to a string.

Will this be a bit helpful ???

EDIT

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"]];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-ddHH:mm:ss"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2011-04-0600:28:27"];