Re: NSDateFormatter misbehaving
Re: NSDateFormatter misbehaving
- Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter misbehaving
- From: Roger Dalal <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:43:40 -0500
Lorenzo:
By deleting "setDateStyle", the following provided the result I believe you hoped for:
NSDate *now = [[NSDate alloc] init];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE_MMM_dd_yyyy"];
NSString *filenameDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:now];
NSLog(@"filenameDate: %@",filenameDate);
[dateFormatter release];
[now release];
My console output:
2011-02-02 17:38:45.123 App[410:307] filenameDate: Wed_Feb_02_2011
Regards,
Roger Dalal
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On Feb 2, 2011, at 4:30 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2011 3:18pm, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:14 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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>> > Here is the code I'm using to format a date string:
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>> > NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
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>> > NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
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>> > [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
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>> The above should use -setFormatterBehavior:, not -setDateStyle:.
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>> > [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
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>> > // check placed here
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>> > [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE_MMM_dd_yyyy"];
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>> > NSString * filenameDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
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>> > What I'm expecting is something like this:
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>> > Tue_Feb_02_2011
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>> > What I'm getting is this:
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>> > 02/02/2011
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>> > I even inserted this line just after the setDateFormat to see just what the formatter would return as its format
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>> > NSString * df = [dateFormatter dateFormat];
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>> > I get this back
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>> > 02/02/2001
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>> > What gives? I've used NSDateFormatter before with no problems. I assume I've missed something silly, but I just don't see it.
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>> Regards,
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>> Ken
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> Sorry, that was a typo:
> This
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> NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
> [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
> [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE_MMM_dd_yyyy"];
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> NSString * filenameDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
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> still produces
> 02/02/2011
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