Question

I’m trying to parse

 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Is it possible to do this with using NSDateFormatter?

Answer 1

Try the following:

NSString *dateString = @"Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:00:00 GMT";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz";

NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
NSLog(@"%@", date);

Depending on how you will specify the time zone, you may have to change the line:

dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz";

with

dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z";

if you will use GMT-02:00 for example, but keep it if you will use PDT.