Re: NSDate from xsd:dateTime / ISO 8601
Re: NSDate from xsd:dateTime / ISO 8601
- Subject: Re: NSDate from xsd:dateTime / ISO 8601
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:36:52 -0700
On 17 Mar '08, at 3:20 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:
Does -dateWithString: really not support the
"international [standard!] string representation" of
ISO 8601?? What's the right way to convert such an
xsd:dateTime to an NSDate?
+[NSDate dateWithString:] is, I think, configured to recognize one
particular date format, which depends on your system locale. It's not
very useful. What you want to do is customize an NSDateFormatter
object to recognize your format, and then parse using it.
Here's some code I wrote recently. This sets up the date formatter,
which only needs to be done once:
static NSDateFormatter *sISO8601 = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
...
sISO8601.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterFullStyle;
sISO8601.dateFormat = @"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZZ";
Then you parse a date from a string like:
NSDate *date = [sISO8601 dateFromString: str];
Actually, looking at my code, there's a gotcha where the
NSDateFormatter doesn't seem to understand the "Z" suffix. The best
workaround I could find was this kludge:
// Formatters don't undnerstand "Z" timezone, so replace it with "GMT":
if( [str hasSuffix: @"Z"] )
str = [[str substringToIndex: str.length-1]
stringByAppendingString: @"GMT"];
Do that just before the -dateFromString call.
—Jens
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