Question

I want to parse this date: “2009-08-24T05:20:00”

I have tried this, but doesn’t work:

NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss"];

any ideas ?

Answer 1

I created a category for this:

NSString+DateParse.h

@interface NSString (DateParse) 

-(NSDate *) dateFromISO8601;

@end

NSString+DateParse.m

@implementation NSString (DateParse) 

-(NSDate *) dateFromISO8601 {

    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
    NSString *format = ([self hasSuffix:@"Z"]) ? @"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" : @"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz";
    [formatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
    [formatter setDateFormat:format];
    [formatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"GMT"]];
    return [formatter dateFromString:self];

}

@end

So, suppose if you have a string called strDate:

NSDate * dtParsed = [strDate dateFromISO8601];