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Re: dateFromString issue



On Jul 13, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Tonny wrote:

> i met a dateFromString issue, is there something wrong?
>
>    NSString *dateString = @"2011-07-14 09:09:11";
>
>    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
>    [formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
>    NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:dateString];
>    [formatter release];
>
>    NSLog(@"Date : %@",date);
>
> but i got ---------->   Date :  2011-07-14 01:09:11 +0000


Your NSLog isn't being asked to use the date formatter that you made, it's using NSDate's -description method instead. This will give you what you want:

	NSLog( @"Date: %@", [formatter stringFromDate:date] );


-jeff

PS - as a minor note, this question is off-topic for this list and probably best suited for email@hidden, since it's a cocoa api question.

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