Re: NSDateFormatter Breaks on non-English OS
Re: NSDateFormatter Breaks on non-English OS
- Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter Breaks on non-English OS
- From: mmalc Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:38:41 -0700
On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Trygve Inda wrote:
NSString* myDateFormat = @"%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y";
NSDate* myDate = nil;
// myDateString is "Tue Jun 30 15:53:24 UTC 2009"
myFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]
initWithDateFormat:imageDateFormat
allowNaturalLanguage:NO];
myDate = [myFormatter dateFromString:myDateString];
This works on my English OS, but if I set the Number format to German,
myDate is nil. Why?
It's not clear what you mean by setting the Number format. What value
are you setting and where?
If I am supplying the string format, and the string is correct, how
do I fix
it? Is it because "Tue" is English?
Almost certainly -- "Tue" is not a German abbreviation...
How can I force it to parse in English as my string will always be
English?
Do you need to support pre-10.4 systems?
You are strongly encouraged to adopt the 10.4+ behaviour for
formatters. You can then easily set a specific locale for the
formatter.
See <http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/DataFormatting/Articles/dfDateFormatting10_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002369
> (note in particular the references to the Unicode string format
standards).
mmalc
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