Question

I’ve been stumped by the code below. I pass a string date to a UIDatePicker which seems to work on most devices, yet on some, it crashes the app.

here’s the code

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"HH:mm"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:dateStr];
[timePicker setDate:date];
[dateFormat release];

I have a function which passes the “dateStr” variable, as follows, dateStr = @"0:0"; I cannot see what’s wrong – as it works for me! (iphone 3.1.3) but it doesnt work for my tester (ipod touch 3.1.3)

Can anyone see anything wrong with the code?

Thanks v much.
any ideas?

Answer 1

Probably locale problem.

Try to set a common locale for the date formatter e.g.

NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];
[dateFormat setLocale:usLocale];
[usLocale release];