Question

I need to enter the time value hh:mm:ss (09:45:56) format , but in the Xcode text field I always get (094556) as format –
how to resolve this?

Answer 1

You can use NSDateFormatter to parse any custom format

NSDateFormatter *dateformatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

dateformatter.dateFormat = @"HH':'mm':'ss";

NSString *mydate = @"09:45:56" 

NSDate *parseddate = [dateformatter dateFromString:mydate];

This should give you a date of “9.45 am today”

The Docs for NSDateFormatter are pretty good but you can find the specific formatter variants possible here. Its linked from the apple docs.

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-19.html#Date_Format_Patterns