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Re: NSLog displays inconsistent format for NSDate
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Re: NSLog displays inconsistent format for NSDate


  • Subject: Re: NSLog displays inconsistent format for NSDate
  • From: Alex Zavatone via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 18:18:02 -0500

Use an NSDateFormatter.  Use a format string with at the end ZZZ or ZZZZ if you
want the time zone offset added.




> On Aug 20, 2019, at 2:50 PM, Carl Hoefs via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> When printing out an NSDate using NSLog from within Xcode I get:
>
> "Tue Aug 20 12:32:40 2019"
>
> When the same program is run from within a shell (bash) window:
>
> "2019-08-20 19:32:48 +0000"
>
> Is the NSDate output format somehow determined by the environment? My system
> is set to Local Time Zone (America/Los_Angeles (PDT) offset -25200
> (Daylight)).
>
> A code snippet that reproduces the issue follows.
>
> -Carl
>
>
>
> - (void) testDate
> {
>    NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
>    unsigned unitFlags =
> NSCalendarUnitYear|NSCalendarUnitMonth|NSCalendarUnitDay|NSCalendarUnitHour|NSCalendarUnitMinute|NSCalendarUnitSecond|NSCalendarUnitTimeZone;
>    NSDateComponents *dateComponents = [calendar components:unitFlags
> fromDate:[NSDate date]];
>    dateComponents.timeZone = NSTimeZone.localTimeZone;
>    NSDate *configuredDate = [calendar dateFromComponents:dateComponents];
>    NSLog(@"Configured date: %@",configuredDate);
> }
>
> Xcode:
> 2019-08-20 12:32:40.828863-0700 tester[3926:1353] Configured date: Tue Aug 20
> 12:32:40 2019
>
> Shell:
> 2019-08-20 12:33:08.356 tester[3928:1359] Configured date: 2019-08-20
> 19:32:48 +0000
>
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