Question

In my iPhone app, I am trying to get the EEE MMM dd from a date string received by a web service.

For all dates where time is < 07:00, the NSDateFormatter returns a date off by 1 day. For example: Date to format: 2010-11-17T05:00:00, formatted date result: Tue Nov 16

Here’s the code snippet:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat: @"EEE MMM dd"];

NSDate *dateToFormat = [NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString:dateStringToFormat locale:[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] dictionaryRepresentation]];

NSString *formattedDateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:dateToFormat];
[dateFormat release];


What could be the problem?

Answer 1

Probably has something to do with time zones. You probably need to set an appropriate value for the timeZone property of your NSDateFormatter object.