Question

I have the need of getting NSDate format from a NSString *stringDate and I would do that by using the following code:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.dateFormat = @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:stringDate];

The above code works fine if I initialize my string manually NSString *stringDate = @"2013-01-14 17:55:53";, so I get the date in NSDate format correct.

But I am reading the string from an sqlite3 database, so the string is initialized as follows:

NSString *stringDate = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *)sqlite3_column_text(selectstmt, 0)];

The string is NSLogged correctly, but when I try to get the NSDate format i get only (null).

Any ideas of what could be the problem? Thanks!

Answer 1

The string you read from the sqlite is not in the format that you are using in dateformatter.

EDIT:

Use formatter.dateFormat = @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z"; or trimming time zone (+0000) will solve your problem.-By Inder Kr. Rathore