Re: NSDateFormatter strangeness
Re: NSDateFormatter strangeness
- Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter strangeness
- From: Nathan Kinsinger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:06:02 -0700
On Nov 17, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Greg Hoover wrote:
I am using NSDateFormatter. The code snippet included shows this.
Greg
On Nov 17, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
I think it's a known issue. The documentation for -[NSDate
descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale:] (which I can only
assume that -[NSDate description] calls) has this caveat:
"There are several problems with the implementation of this method
that cannot be fixed for compatibility reasons. To format a date
correctly, you should consider using a date formatter object instead
(see NSDateFormatter and Data Formatting Programming Guide for
Cocoa)."
So, don't log NSDate objects, send them through an NSDateFormatter
instead.
--Kyle Sluder
The method -[NSDateFormatter dateFromString:] returns an NSDate, which
is what NSLog sees, which results in the problem that Kyle refers to.
First you need to create an NSDate that NSDateFormatter can then
format into a string, like so:
NSLog(@"%@ -> %@", dateString, [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate
dateWithNaturalLanguageString:dateString]]);
Hope that helps,
--Nathan
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