Question

I have datepicker, a button and a label. The label says “Choose your date”, the datepicker is, yeah, a datepicker and the button transfers the date the user picked into the label, like this: “You chose the date 2013-01-18 02:28:58 +0000”.

How can I get the date format to be: “You chose the date 18/01-2013” ??? Without the time and the day/month/year set up?

The code I have in the button IBAction for the transfer to label is:

NSString *words = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@"You chose the date %@", dateSelected];
settDato.text = words;

Answer 1

Use NSDateFormatter, in your .h have

NSDateFormatter *formatter

Then in viewDidLoad or init method is best

formatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"dd/MM-YYYY"];

Then in your IBAction

NSString *words = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"You chose the date %@", [formatter stringFromDate:dateSelected]];
settDato.text = words;