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Re: NSDate with Format?
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Re: NSDate with Format?


  • Subject: Re: NSDate with Format?
  • From: Dave DeLong <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:22:33 -0600

NSDateFormatter is your friend.  =)

You use it like this:
NSDateFormatter * f = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[f setDateFormat:@"YYYY-mm-dd"];
NSLog([f stringFromDate:aDate]);
[f release];

There's also a really handy "dateFromString" method that will parse a string according to the format string you specify.

This page has lots of good info on what the formatting specifiers are:
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-4.html#Date_Format_Patterns

HTH,

Dave

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Pierce Freeman wrote:

Hi everyone.

I am looking into a way to change the format of what a NSDate instance shows
to the user. I am aware there is a way to do this with NSCalendarDate, but
since its documentation says that it may be deprecated in Snow Leopard - I
would rather not take a chance. Also, I need some way to be able to create
a NSDate instance out of this format contained in a string (for example
%Y-%m-%d).


Thanks for any help.


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