Is the hour component of NSDateComponent in a 12h or 24h format? I cannot find anything about this in the documentation…
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Is the hour component of NSDateComponent in a 12h or 24h format? I cannot find anything about this in the documentation…
It’s 24 hours, on the gregorian calendar.
Why? The documentation doesn’t say it explicitly; however, it does state that the values are for whatever calendar is used. am/pm is just a different notation — countries using am/pm still have 24 hours per day, they are just writing if differently.
Also, if you look at the available unit constants, you will notice there there is no “am/pm” constant. Again, that’s because am/pm is a localized notation, not a property of the gregorian calendar.
EDIT: if you are asking this because you want to output a time in readable form, don’t use NSDateComponents — use NSDateFormatter.