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Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale
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Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale


  • Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale
  • From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:12:20 -0500

There are cases where that's totally appropriate. Maybe in a report it requires a leading zero. You still want to respect the user's settings in all other areas.

On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Sean McBride wrote:

On 8/11/09 6:39 PM, Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard said:

I am trying to format dates for display. So far I have been using this
formatter:


	NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]
autorelease];

	[dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
	[dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
	[dateFormatter setTimeStyle:kCFDateFormatterMediumStyle];


Now, I want to add leading zeros to days and month values. It seems
there is no way of teaching the above formatter to do so. It goes with
whatever format the user has set in System Preferences.


Thus I am trying the below formatter:

	NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]
autorelease];

	[dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
	[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd/mm/yy hh:MM:ss a"];

This works fine, except for the fact that I have now hardcoded the
fact that I display day/month/year rather than month/day/year.

It would seem that NSLocale should know about the user's preferences.
Yet I can find no way to query it for date format.

So you want to use the user's preference and yet you don't. The choice
of leading zeros or no is part of the user's choice. But if you must,
you could get the user's format string and carefully alter it to add
leading zeros.


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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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 >NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale (From: Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale (From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>)

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