Re: Simple date format problem? iOS 5
Re: Simple date format problem? iOS 5
- Subject: Re: Simple date format problem? iOS 5
- From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:39:22 -0500
That's what I thought. We'll try it with the locale and calendar identifier set. Yes, we could get a CFGregorian and just format it with stringForFormat...but this seems nice and simple too.
On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Dave DeLong <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I'm going to venture out on a limb and say you shouldn't be using NSDateFormatter for this. NSDateFormatter is really only useful when you're converting a date to-and-from a human-readable form. The way you're using it, it's not human-readable, and will cause you problems in very subtle ways.
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> I think that's going too far — you can use NSDateFormatter for this, as long as you reset the calendar and locale:
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> formatter.calendar = [[[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease];
> formatter.locale = [[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"] autorelease];
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> (I'm not sure whether [NSLocale systemLocale] would work as well; I'm copying this from some working code of mine that generates ISO-8601 date strings.)
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> —Jens
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