Re: Formatting elapsed time
Re: Formatting elapsed time
- Subject: Re: Formatting elapsed time
- From: Dennis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:00:05 -0700
How do you eliminate the am/pm? There does not appear to be a built-in date formatter style that does that.
On Sep 7, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
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> On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Dennis <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I'm getting stuck trying to format a variable quantity of elapsed time for the user's locale. The NSDateFormatter class seems to only provide formats for actual times (e.g. "1:30 AM"). What I need to do is turn 1 hour and 30 minutes into "1:30" for my US English settings, and the appropriate string for other locales.
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> I think the best you can do is generate an NSDate that’s the given elapsed-time past midnight of the current day, and then format it using a formatter that doesn’t include any date or am/pm indicators.
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> —Jens
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