Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates
Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates
- Subject: Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:26:11 +0700
On 27 Sep 2011, at 22:03, glenn andreas wrote:
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> On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
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>>> In general, what happens if you temporarily remove the locale and time zone settings?
>> The time zone settings have been already removed, because setting the locale also sets the time zone.
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> NSLocale has no idea about time zones - the two are orthogonal. NSLocale does know what NSCalendar to use (so doing setLocale: should mean that you don't need to do setCalendar:), but a given locale can have more than one time zone, and a single time zone can potentially cross multiple locales.
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> Not that that probably has a whole lot to do with NSDateFormatter returning empty strings...
The documentation says about dateStyles: "Do not use these constants if you want an exact format".
When I do: [ dateFormatter setDateStyle: NSDateFormatterFullStyle ]
it prints: "Tuesday 27 September 2011"
and when I add: [ dateFormatter setTimeStyle: NSDateFormatterFullStyle ]
it prints: "Tuesday 27 September 2011 23:18:16 Indochina Time"
Note that it was initialized with the dateFormat "EEE dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"
All rather confusing - but at least I get some output.
The reason for using dateFormatter was that I needed:
NSArray *monthSymbols = [ dateFormatter monthSymbols ];
NSArray *shortWeekdaySymbols = [ dateFormatter shortWeekdaySymbols ];
Is there a more direct way to get at these localized strings, without a dateFormatter?
Maybe NSUserDefaults?
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
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