Re: NSDateFormatter misbehaving
Re: NSDateFormatter misbehaving
- Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter misbehaving
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:18:38 -0600
On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:14 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> Here is the code I'm using to format a date string:
>
>
> NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
>
> NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
> [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
The above should use -setFormatterBehavior:, not -setDateStyle:.
> [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
> // check placed here
> [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE_MMM_dd_yyyy"];
>
> NSString * filenameDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
>
> What I'm expecting is something like this:
> Tue_Feb_02_2011
>
> What I'm getting is this:
> 02/02/2011
>
> I even inserted this line just after the setDateFormat to see just what the formatter would return as its format
> NSString * df = [dateFormatter dateFormat];
>
> I get this back
> 02/02/2001
>
> What gives? I've used NSDateFormatter before with no problems. I assume I've missed something silly, but I just don't see it.
Regards,
Ken
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