Question

I receive a date through a string parameter, which is tempDateString, in a [day month year] format (for ex. 01 05 2005):

 NSLog(@"tempdatestring %@", tempDateString);
 NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
 [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd MM YYYY"];
 NSDate *dayDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:tempDateString];
 NSLog(@"daydate %@", dayDate);

My problem is, that the two logs don’t match. The outputs are:

tempdatestring 04 10 2012
daydate 2011-12-24 22:00:00 +0000

What should I change at the date formatter’s date format, to get the good date?

Answer 1

2 Problems

• your format is wrong it is @"dd MM yyyy" case sensitive

• Use timezone to get the correct value[GMT value]

  NSString *tempDateString=@"04 10 2012" ;
  NSLog(@"tempdatestring %@", tempDateString);
  NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  [dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];
  [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd MM yyyy"];
  NSDate *dayDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:tempDateString];
  NSLog(@"daydate %@", dayDate);