Question

I have struggling with to convert nsstring to nsdate format. I have a date in nsstring format like (2011-08-25 18:30:00 +0000), but i want to change it in nsdate format (08/26/2011). How to change it? Can any one help me please? Thanks in advance… I have spend one day to solve this but i cant find out the solution.. Please help me friends….

This is my code,

    NSString *dateString = @"2011-08-25 18:30:00 +0000";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"];
NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
NSLog(@"Converted date is %@",dateFromString);

Output is,

         Converted date is (null)

Yuva.M

Answer 1

NSString *dateWithInitialFormat = @"2011-08-25 18:30:00 +0000";

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateWithInitialFormat];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"];
NSString *dateWithNewFormat = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(@"dateWithNewFormat: %@", dateWithNewFormat);

From NSLog: dateWithNewFormat: 08/25/2011

See Date Format Patterns