Re: converting between strings, NSCalendarDates and back again
Re: converting between strings, NSCalendarDates and back again
- Subject: Re: converting between strings, NSCalendarDates and back again
- From: Jonathan Jackel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:23:57 -0500
On Mar 17, 2004, at 10:23 PM, John Clayton wrote:
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Hi,
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Say I have a date coming in as input to a framework method that looks
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like this:Thu Oct 16 11:38:11 2003
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I know that the date is in the GMT timezone. I need to convert the
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string to an NSCalendarDate (I think) and be able to return it in the
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same format. I've tried doing this to get the date initialized:
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NSString *dateStringForGMT = [myDateString stringByAppendingString:@"
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GMT"];
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NSCalendarDate *newDate = [NSCalendarDate
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dateWithString:dateStringForGMT calendarFormat:@"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y
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%Z"];
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which seems to work fine when creating the date. But is there some
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magic to getting it to return the original string format when calling
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-description but still retaining its proper time?
It should be doing that already. That's what the docs for
dateWithString:calendarFormat say. You can also try to set the date
format with setCalendarFormat: or get the description in a particular
format with descriptionWithCalendarFormat:
Jonathan
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