Question

So i am parsing an xml file and display on screen the dates that i parse.
The dates are like : Thu , 31 May 2012 20:43:54 GMT.
How can i convert the date to this format : dd/mm/yy ?
i dont need the time.

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Well it crashes.
I tried :

NSString *date = [[stories objectAtIndex: storyIndex] objectForKey: @"date"];

//changing dates format
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z"];
NSDate *myDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:date];

NSString *dateText = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:[dateFormatter stringFromDate:myDate]];

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use NSDateFormatter

For example:

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z"];

    NSDate *myDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:yourString];

See http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html#Date_Format_Patterns for dateformat patterns