Question

I have the following code:

[ [NSDate date] descriptionWithLocale: @"yyyy-MM-dd" ]

I want it to return a date in the following format: “2009-04-23”

But it returns: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:27:03 PM GMT+03:00

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You are using the wrong method. Instead try descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale:

[[NSDate date] descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%Y-%m-%d"
                                    timezone:nil
                                      locale:nil];

Also note that the method is expecting a different format than the one in your question. The full documentation for that can be found here.

EDIT: Though as Mike noted, you really should be using NSDateFormatter. There are some problems with descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timezone:locale: that Apple mentions in the documentation.