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: John Clayton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:25:21 -0500
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks. I remembered descriptionWithCalendarFormat: after I had sent
this out.
I guess my real question is, can I create the date from a string like
the one below without adding the "GMT" and have the date be calibrated
in GMT instead of my system time zone?
On Mar 18, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Jackel wrote:
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On Mar 17, 2004, at 10:23 PM, John Clayton wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
>
> same format. I've tried doing this to get the date initialized:
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> NSString *dateStringForGMT = [myDateString stringByAppendingString:@"
>
> 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?
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>
It should be doing that already. That's what the docs for
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dateWithString:calendarFormat say. You can also try to set the date
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format with setCalendarFormat: or get the description in a particular
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format with descriptionWithCalendarFormat:
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>
Jonathan
>
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