Question

I’ve got a drawRect that makes a timeline a bit like iCal. I use a for loop to write the times along a scroll view. I was wondering if A) theres a way of determining whether the user has chosen a 12 or 24 hour clock in the system settings and B) if there is a more efficient way of changing the time labels then calling an ‘if’ query every pass of the ‘for’ loop.
Cheers

Answer 1

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSString *formattedString = [NSDateFormatter localizedStringFromDate:today dateStyle: kCFDateFormatterNoStyle timeStyle: kCFDateFormatterShortStyle];

NSRange foundRange;
foundRange = [formattedString rangeOfString:"am" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
if(foundRange.location == NSNotFound) {
    foundRange = [formattedString rangeOfString:"pm" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
}

BOOL isAMPMSettingOn = (foundRange.location != NSNotFound);