Question

I try to convert a string to NSDATE with no luck unfortunately.

Friday, October 22, 11:26:45 ET 2010

I know the options for formatting (http://sree.cc/objective-c/nsdate-format-string-in-objective-c) but i cant get it to work.

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"???????"];

anyone?

Answer 1

Date Format Specifiers.

So you’d probably need something like:

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"eeee, MMMM dd, HH:mm:ss z yyyy"];

• eeee – Local day of week spelled out
• MMMM – Month spelled out
• dd – day of month with no leading zeros
• HH – hour of day (24 hour format)
• mm – minutes of hour (with leading zero)
• ss – seconds of minute (with leading zero)
• z – timezone (short wall time)
• yyyy – calendar year