Question

I think I am using the NSDateFormatter in a wrong way. I have a UIDatePicker. When I select a date, my day label ,month label, year label and time label is set.

When I click on a save button I build up a date with this labels and send it to my server.
I do it like this.

 NSString *dateStringBegin = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@ %@ %@",lblBeginDay.text,lblBeginMonth.text,lblBeginYear.text,lblBeginTime.text];

//LOG dateStringBegin =  7 februari 2013 11:21

But my server only accepts a string that looks like this 2013-02-07 11:21

Now I am doing this in code.

 NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"d MMMM YYYY hh:mm"];
    NSDate* date = [dateFormat dateFromString:dateStringBegin];

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat2 = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat2 setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm"];
    NSString *dateStringBegin2 =  [dateFormat2 stringFromDate:date];

Now when I look at how my dateStringBegin2 looks like, I see this.

//LOG dateStringBegin2 = 2013-12-28 11:21

Answer 1

Check this code:-

NSString *dateStringBegin = @"7 february 2013 11:21";
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm"];
    NSDate* date = [dateFormat dateFromString:dateStringBegin];

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat2 = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat2 setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"];
    NSString *dateStringBegin2 =  [dateFormat2 stringFromDate:date];
    NSLog(@"Date : %@",dateStringBegin2);

Hope it helps you..